Since the release of hacked data, including names, phone numbers, email addresses and partial credit card numbers, from Ashley Madison, a dating website for married adults, a variety of news outlets have covered the database. Gawker reported on Josh Duggar, New Orleans’ Times-Picayune outed a GOP executive director, and the Associated Press used IP addresses to identify users in the White House. Chava Gourarie writes that reporting on the data of private citizens that was stolen by hackers raises some ethical questions. Some issues of credibility exist, because Ashley Madison did not require users to verify email addresses. Monica Guzman, vice-chair of ethics at the Society of Professional Journalists, says: “Public is not the same as published. If you’re a journalist, you are assuming responsibility for what you publish.”
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