The leak contains large amounts of personal information on people who aren't necessarily guilty of anything illegal, correct? If that's the case, releasing the full leak comes with some very real ethical concerns.
How do we know? That's just an assumption. It could also be that the leak contains information on some very powerful people who better not be crossed?
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That’s what ethics is all about: weighing different things against each other.
The journalists widely shared the data with other journalists and outlets to make it easier to work through the data but probably also to combat the problem of being blind in certain ways …