Rape Victims are some of those who have been named.
WikiLeaks Julian Assange at the head has been hailed for having shared classified documents from various authorities, but they have also been criticized over how they handle personal information.
Frames innocent people
in July published leaking forwards emails sent by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the political party AKP in Turkey. When the former was not Social Security numbers and credit card information edited out and as part of the AKP leak shall WikiLeaks have created a “special database” for virtually all female, Turkish voters, reports The Verge. The link to the database were later removed.
Associated Press (AP) writes now that WikiLeaks growing collection of documents includes viruses and spam, but also sensitive information about innocent people.
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leak of documents from the Saudi Ministry of foreign Affairs which was first published last year, contains at least 124 medical records that belong to the mentally ill, children and refugees, said.
in addition, rape victims named on two occasions, as well as a saudi Arabian person who was arrested because he is gay – which is punishable by death in the country.
Other things like marriage, divorce and fighting for custody contained information about people with sexually transmitted diseases, personal debt and other sensitive information.
the Verge has been in contact with WikiLeaks which so far has not wanted to comment on the matter. In 2010, said Assange that “We have a policy for skademinimisering. These are legitimate secrets. Your entries with your doctor, are legitimate secretly. “
Sources:
Associated Press,
The Verge
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