NLJ this week: Pandora’s box―tax havens, the desire to expose and the right to privacy

Gould asks: is it justifiable to search the information of so many people in the expectation of wrongdoing by some? For him, there are multiple ethical questions and moral conundrums.

He writes: ‘Is punishment by public exposure, rather than by judicial process, by journalistic vigilantes justified? If the moral standard to be enforced is not that of the law, then whose moral standard is it, and where does its legitimacy come from? Who decides how much collateral damage to blameless individuals is acceptable?’