Larry Keating writes:
…. the privacy commissioners hammer down hard on those high profile losses when thousands of records go missing. They want disclosure of the incident and protection for the individuals. The media piles on, always on the hunt for the details, to splay the true extent of the incident for their readers.
But the disclosure of certain details and the sensationalizing of them can possibly ensure just the kind of damage to individuals the privacy commissioners wish to avoid.
Read his full commentary on Huffington Post.