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Daily Dashboard | How Should Reporters Use Ashley Madison Data? Related reading: UK Parliament committee to review EU-UK adequacy agreement

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Without doubt, the hack of the Ashley Madison site and resulting data dump is news. However, the journalism community is now debating, writes Malena Carollo for CMS Passcode, about which parts of the data are fair game. Should reporters use contact information in the stolen data to contact potential sources? How should reporters verify the information they find there? Do these people deserve less privacy because they “were doing something they shouldn’t have”? Some journalism professors argue there should be a greater news value beyond simply being a person interested in infidelity. Others counter, “it’s more unethical to not call a source because you have some inhibition about how you got the source’s contact information.” Editor’s Note: Privacy Perspectives recently featured thoughts on how the media should handle this story.
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