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Wikileaks – Privacy is dead, hello Reputation Management
December 8, 2010 | 
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The end of privacy as we know it is here and we have to accept it – clearly this is the biggest and the most pertinent outcome of the WikiLeak releases. Privacy is so much a part of having a reputation as much as publicity is and this is going to change everything about managing reputations.
WikiLeaks is all out to release its entire cache of cables – diplomatic ones and more. The ‘Cablegate‘ as it is being called is galvanizing into an anti-US supremacy crusade. Hilary Clinton’s busy calling up world leaders to assure their continued support and there is no denying that the US is feeling the heat.
Julian Assange though is continuing to release more incriminating documents even as he spends his first day, in jail, in London. The Whistle-blower website explains about the journalistic angle to their mission…
When information comes in, our journalists analyse the material, verify it and write a news piece about it describing its significance to society. We then publish both the news story and the original material in order to enable readers to analyse the story in the context of the original source material themselves.
And as for the anonymous sources, the not-for-profit site, provides protection when they say…
Unlike other outlets, we provide a high security anonymous drop box fortified by cutting-edge cryptographic information technologies. This provides maximum protection to our sources.
So, yes inter office memos, inter-departmental cables, corporate wheeling and dealing, inter-national relations can all be now in the Wikileaks cache. More such sites are reportedly cropping up across the world including one out to get the Russian mafia.
Clearly privacy is dead and from review sites and forums, we have moved on to WikiLeaks and more. Twitter for one has been one of the biggest supporters of Julian Assange and Wikileaks and it’s all only just begun.
Reputation management cannot be any more relevant as the zeitgeist of the time is all about transparency and the right to information.
How WikiLeaks could damage the US reputation
Rated by many as one of the largest intelligence leaks in U.S. History, WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website has released over 90,000 classified Pentagon documents that chronicle over six years of confidential and classified information on Afghanistan war. Founded by an Australian Internet activist, Julian Assange in 2007 , this site had earlier come up with a manual describing the military operations in the U.S. military Guantanamo Bay detention facility and also published a classified Pentagon “Rules of Engagement for Iraq.”
The leaked documents might change the concept of war and the US role in Afghanistan. While millions of dollars are being pumped into the anti terrorism operations in Afghanistan, Wikileaks could jeopardize the basic objective of the US presence in the war torn Afghanistan as these information will actually put hundreds of Afghan lives at risk because the files identify informants working with NATO forces. Experts also warn that these sensitive information could be misused by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda to identify and target informers in the war zone.
It came as a surprise for many when Admiral Mike Mullen, the most senior US Military Officer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff posted his views in Twitter on the the leaks of Afghanistan war logs instead of holding an official press conference. While the US preferred to down play the issue of Wikileaks as something not very serious that demand a change in its war strategies in Afghanistan , the Afghan officials are taking the whole issue very seriously.
“The US is both morally and legally responsible for any harm that the leaks might cause to the individuals, particularly those who have been named. It will further limit the US/international access to the uncensored views of Afghans,” the Afghan official told a newspaper.
As the heat is fully on, the US officials have said they were working to see if the mass document release could prove harmful to the operational security or the endanger lives of informants in Afghanistan. Though the Wikileaks have opened a flood gate of questions regarding the Afghan strategy of the US and its relationship with Pakistan, the country is trying to downplay it all. However, the fact remains that the national reputation of the country is clearly at stake with these unexpected turn of events!
Posted in National Reputation, Reputation News | 
Tags: Afganistan, National Reputation, Pakistan, terrorism, Wikileaks | 
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