CMST 4P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Vigilante

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 4P03
• Professor: Andrea Zeffiro

Document Summary

In your group, explore the following questions: describe the case study with some background context. Are there specific individuals/groups behind the data dump/hack: 13. 4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investments used for tax evasion leaked to a german newspaper. Why/why not: yes, e(cid:448)e(cid:374) though it(cid:859)s u(cid:374)(cid:272)lear (cid:449)here it(cid:859)s (cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g fro(cid:373) it(cid:859)s (cid:272)lear that this is true. Attack at the governments control over information - attempt to balance power. Hacking is the specific act whereas hacktivism is using hacking for the sake of activism. In this case, there are privacy issues (even though this activity was unethical, is leaking this information still a breach of privacy?).