Education reporters and journalists of all kinds have struggled to figure out what if anything to do with the possibility that public officials might have accessed the infidelity hookup site called Ashley Madison, whose user database was hacked and released to the public.
What people do on their private time is nobody’s business, goes the usual argument. But the traditional bright line for journalists — using work-provided computers — seems murky and unclear in this age of always-on, always-working mobile computing. The venerable Columbia Journalism Review addressed the ethics issue directly in a recent post, Is it ethical to write about hacked Ashley Madison users?.
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