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Alternative coverage. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58780465 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58780465 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/pandora-pap

• verisimi 5y ago
  I'm cynical, but I think if the bbc, guardian and wapo are reporting on this, this is a controlled release.
  • lysp 5y ago
    It's similar with other leaks. It's shared amongst journalists worldwide who analyse it for a few weeks/months. Then they all release on the same day. It allows local coverage and doesn't give those mentioned a heads up.
• 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
  This touches on something that HN readers should be quite familiar with. The immediate issue here in every case is not legality, ethics, morality, etc., it is privacy. As we can see demonstrated by this story, some folks do have things they want to hide. Tech employees supporting efforts to violate people's privacy at mass scale, collecting data about people to feed advertising-dependent business plans, and creating conditions for data breaches that leak personal information, please take note.
  • miohtama 5y ago
    It is always about balancing public, the interest of many, over private, the interest of one. When transaction size goes to millions and publicly funded politicians get involved, the public interest becomes more dominant. Especially if you have crooked deals like a friend of Putin buying a movie theater price under the market value, funded by a government loan.