[Aurornis]

> I run a hybrid B2B and B2C consumer packaged good company. I have a few small investors. They know who my top clients are, because they ask in good faith, and I answer in good faith.

Right, because it's easy to share your customer list when you have a small number of customers and they are repeat customers.

Her company helped with student loans. Her customers were mostly one-time customers. The customer count was supposed to be indicative of how many new college students they could expect to sign up each year.

[dboreham]

Right but the privacy law excuse is nonsense. All such laws (possible exception of medical data) allow for 3rd parties to be "read in" on the data for legitimate purposes. Source: worked as a consultant for companies with private data for 20 years.

[Ifkaluva]

I seem to remember she actively forged accounts. Even funded a genAI project with a university professor on how to credibly forge accounts