After 'Erdogan Emails', WikiLeaks Reveals Info Of Turkish Women

  • 30 July 2016
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After publishing the ‘Erdogan Emails’ amidst the failed military coup in Turkey, whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks has now revealed the personal detail of every woman in the country. WikiLeaks has been criticised for tweeting a link to archives holding personal and sensitive data of 'every female voter in 79 out of 81 provinces in Turkey'.

According to Turkish academic and reporter Zeynep Tufekci, the site also linked to the personal details of hundreds of thousands of women on the electoral register via their social media accounts.

 
In an article in the Huffington Post, Tufekci asserted: "[WikiLeaks] 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.”

"If these women are members of Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (known as the AKP), the dumped files also contain their Turkish citizenship ID, which increases the risk to them as the ID is used in practising a range of basic rights and accessing services. The Istanbul file alone contains more than a million women's private information, and there are 79 files, with most including information of many hundreds of thousands of women."

 
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All I can say to this is may Wikileaks rot in hell for all the harm that it is has done...and how is this latest fiasco in any way preserving freedom of information? Some information should never be freely available. :@

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