It has been 10 years since Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks, the website that has gone on to serve as the world's most prominent digital repository of leaked government information. The organization has been celebrating a decade of existence over the past week by putting on display everything that makes its brand of radical transparency so powerful and problematic.
Last Sunday, Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepped down from her position as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee because WikiLeaks had obtained and published a trove of embarrassing emails from the organization.
On Monday, an academic named Zeynep Tufekci wrote a scathing article about another recent WikiLeaks data dump, which included 300,000 emails related to the Turkish government. In the article — "WikiLeaks Puts Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason" — Tufekci argued that there was nothing newsworthy about the emails but that WikiLeaks had exposed massive databases containing private information about nearly every woman in the country.