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You choose to divulge any information you consider to be private. Absent an actual formal agreement contingent upon giving that information (which an internal policy is most definitely not), I have no obligation to restrict who I share the information you chose to share with me.

Unless you're going to argue that you own anything you happen to know, even after other people know it? Unless you're going to argue that a posted policy on a free website constitutes a binding agreement?



I have no obligation to restrict who I share the information you chose to share with me.

If that was true in all cases, the story we're commenting on wouldn't exist.


How is that? Please explain how I am obligated to restrict information people freely share with me?


In your example, in this context, there would be no privacy violation possible.




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