Topic > Journalist or Terrorist: Julian Assange - 747

Journalist or TerroristJulian Assange, an Australian publisher, activist, journalist and publisher, launched the WikiLeaks website in 2006. Since then, the site has quickly risen to prominence across the world . It then became known as the most powerful and also most scandalous reporting “media” in the online world. WikiLeaks desecrates and violates the right to privacy, the right to accountability and confidentiality among information and data sharing, also it has a negative impact on governments, private sectors or businesses and even individuals, there is also a big question of responsibility. Right to privacy, right to accountability and confidentiality are some of the rights that one acquires by being a citizen of the country and when these rights are violated it is a crime. Some information such as Social Security number or ATM PIN number and personal banking information must be kept secret, otherwise someone could be victimized and harmed. But in fact now this information can be revealed publicly by Wikileaks because they think they have the right to do so. No body has the right and authority to publicly release information of private interest. Wikileaks does not measure the risks of its publication and the effects it may cause on people. Some of the leaks are so personal that the affected person faces serious contention from the society. Trauma is the consequence of these actions and takes time to move forward; he remains with them incessantly. Likewise, the government prevents certain information from being made public to the entire world. Wikileaks did it differently: the material they disclosed to the world was sensitive material that belonged to the g...... half of the charter ...... of rights and freedoms guarantees that the rights and freedoms set out in it are subjects only within reasonable limits prescribed by law that can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. “ (section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) Wikileaks does not measure the risks of its publication and the effects it may cause on people. legislation laws and regulations are created so that society is protected and to have a better sense of responsibility. When everything is exposed to the public, chaos is bound to follow. Wikileaks undermines and openly challenges the right to privacy, right to accountability and confidentiality among confidential information and data and also causes inconvenience to governments, private sectors and even individuals in various walks of life. after all, acts of hacking into something private are inappropriate, dangerous, and illegal.