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> The names are public knowledge anyway given they were listed in the lawsuit.

Just because their names are relevant to the court case doesn't mean they are relevant to readers of an article reporting on that court case - especially when that article doesn't even bother to identify the court case itself or the software vendor implied by the article to be responsible for the root cause of the matter.




> article doesn't even bother to identify the court case

The court case is public record.


The first non-social-media result on Google for this person is a Bloomberg article about this case.

The court case itself is not in the first five pages of results.

Mentioning the name in this context links this person to one event which arguably isn't even their fault.

This has real consequences for this person in terms of professional reputation alone.




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