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Essay / The Importance of Publishing in the World - 1724
WikiLeaks is an international non-profit journalism organization that publishes secret information, leaked information and classified media from anonymous sources. (Wikipedia, 2015) Since sensitive data and information may be exposed on WikiLeaks, there will be a national security and government security issue. If this data can be easily exposed online, it will pose a challenge to social norms because if the general public can access this sensitive data, it will lead to an increase in the crime rate. Indeed, WikiLeaks' biggest problem is the credibility of the data source, because it is assumed to be anonymous to the WikiLeaks source. Once again the credibility of the online source comes into question and this also becomes an ethical issue as the WikiLeaks source may be leaked information from the government which is illegally removed.