Yeah, releasing all the data paints with pretty broad strokes, and has more implications than just outing cheaters to their partners. 1. It releases the data t

Yeah, releasing all the data paints with pretty broad strokes, and has more implications than just outing cheaters to their partners. 1. It releases the data to everyone, not just to a cheater's partner. I'll buy that a cheater deserves to be outed to their partner, but to their boss? Their psycho ex? And that's not even thinking of the person who was cheated on: do you really think you would want everyone to know that your spouse was cheating on you? 2. Not all the users of the site are cheaters. Some are just role playing, some were just curious, some were probably trying to catch their partners cheating. Ashley Madison's database doesn't make any of these distinctions: everyone gets the scarlet letter.