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by jaf12duke 4647 days ago
OP here.

I can't remember what the exact figure was--but it was in the 5 figures. Which for me felt like a potential life-saver.

I don't think what I promised my users was actually that relevant. It would've been super easy to change our terms of service to include the ability to sell or rent user data. I could have written it in a way no one would have understand. Of course, no one would have ever seen the change anyways.

The real issue was that I knew it was wrong. Even if legal.

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In this situation. Do you think your moral obligation to repay your debt outweight the moral obligation to your user's data?

Or compare this to the moral obligation to repay your investor vs that of the user's data.

Exactly. Could you be open for a lawsuit if you didn't pay your creditors in order to respect the privacy of the email holders?

It's a very fine point, against the backdrop of a very good article.

Thanks for sharing!