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Wikileaks faces new charges today of having outed a gay Saudi, two rape victims, and several domestic workers who had been tortured or sexually abused.
The latest accusations of privacy violations, this time leveled by the Associated Press, come on the heels over Wikileaks’ earlier alleged violation of the privacy rights of nearly every woman in Turkey.
Here’s what Wikileaks did in Turkey last month:
However, WikiLeaks also posted links on social media to its millions of followers via multiple channels to a set of leaked massive databases containing sensitive and private information of millions of ordinary people, including a special database of almost all adult women in Turkey.
Yes — this “leak” actually contains spreadsheets of private, sensitive information of what appears to be every female voter in 79 out of 81 provinces in Turkey, including their home addresses and other private information, sometimes including their cellphone numbers.
And now, Wikileaks is outing gay men and rape victims. (The latter is particularly noxious as Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, is on the run from a rape charge.)
More from AP on the new Wikileaks privacy violations:
Three Saudi cables published by the WikiLeaks identified domestic workers who’d been tortured or sexually abused by their employers, giving the women’s full names and passport numbers. One cable named a male teenager who was raped by a man while abroad; a second identified another male teenager who was so violently raped his legs were broken; a third outlined the details of a Saudi man detained for “sexual deviation” — a derogatory term for homosexuality.
What’s particularly troubling in the AP story is the fact that Wikileaks, though originally taking a strong interest in redacting documents before publishing them, in order to protect the privacy of innocent privacy citizens, now believes that “withholding any data at all “legitimizes the false propaganda of ‘information is dangerous.”
Except that it is dangerous. As a gay Saudi man, two rape victims, several victims of torture and sex abuse, and most of the women in Turkey can attest.
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