Last week the internet dating site, Ashley Madison, was hacked. The site targets users looking for sex outside marriage, and the hack job is revealing the personal details of more than one million unfaithful Australians - including 120 registered accounts in Eden. Do you think these people deserve to be exposed by the hack job, or is this an infringement of privacy?
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Marjorie Stares
Melbourne
It’s absolutely an infringement of privacy.
Our personal details are private, they’re not for the public.
If those people want to do that, it’s their business, not the worlds.
Sarah Sturt
Eden
I think the hack job is an infringement of privacy, but I'm not supportive of cheating at all.
What this issue has brought up for me the most is the debate over same-sex marriage, and the ridiculous claims that gays are ruining the sanctity of marriage.
This hack job reveals what 'marriage' is already. I say live, and let live.
Jennifer McKeena
Yass
It’s an invasion of privacy, but it also serves them right for getting caught.
I don’t believe in extra marital affairs.
If you’re in one, stay in one.
So although it’s their own business, at the end of the day I don’t feel sorry for them at all.
John and Wendy Adams
Gold Coast
We’ve been married 54 years and we wouldn’t use a site like that.
We come from strong families that believed in marriage.
Both our fathers went to war and came back broken but our mothers stuck with them.
But although we don’t support extramarital affairs, we think the hacking is an infringement of privacy.
Heather Dunn
Bathurst
I think the type of website is not the issue, it’s irrelevant.
The hacking is a total invasion of privacy.
This is about people giving away their private information in good faith, and not being given the protection they were promised.
The warning is that whatever goes online, stays online, forever.
Bev and Peter Emmett
Phillip Island
We think it’s an infringement of privacy.
People should be able to do what they want to do.
There are too many people telling us what to do and think these days.
Wife: But I certainly don’t agree with extramarital affairs. It’s not something I even think about.
Steve Tapscott
Eden
It’s weird that nowadays internet sites are simply not safe.
People can access your accounts, your telephone line; nothing’s private anymore. I’m not judging the website itself, or its users.
If people want to use the internet to find what they like, it’s up to them, just so long as they don’t endanger kids or old people.
But the risk is that (hacking) can happen.
