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I'm not talking about how the victims should feel, i'm talking about journalistic integrity.
It never even occurred to me, reading the headline, that they were other than medical photos. If they had been nudes for fun, it would have been a much different headline I think emphasizing that aspect of it as an additional weird angle.
"Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon Takes Nudes of Patients, Loses Them To Hackers, Doesn't Tell Patients, Gets Sued." IDK, something like that, that acknowledges the additional unusual context of the nudes.
Counterpoint: then why emphasize "nude photos", over e.g. the patients' financial information?
This title is clearly leaning into the sensationalism.
Which has enormous ramifications, e.g. right-wingera world-wide right now have mostly stopped listening to traditional media sources, citing how untrustworthy it is.
In this case the info is at least correct just slanted, though in other cases it gets so slanted as to qualify actually for the word "biased" (even if it was an editorial decision purely for the title of a piece rather than the actual author).
On such events the decay and fall of entire ~~empires~~ democracies rests.
Well, I need to step off of this soapbox I guess - whatever was going to happen has already done so, it would seem, so it may not matter anymore (except... shouldn't others attempt to learn from these mistakes to avoid similar from continuing to happen again?).
Agreed. Medical data leak is medical data leak.
You could even say that a medical file showing someone transitioned might be just as damaging or dangerous as nude photos