Situations like this will keep getting worse and worse with our current attitude towards personal data on cloud. My personal thought on situations like this has

Situations like this will keep getting worse and worse with our current attitude towards personal data on cloud. My personal thought on situations like this has always been that locking somebody's data is both unethical and should be considered a crime by law. Service providers have full rights to refuse providing servicing to somebody but they don't have a right to seize somebody's personal data.