government of Alaska of the email correspondence of the former state governor Sarah Palin
in 2011 or else the so-called “Vatileaks” affair implicating the butler of the present Pope
(Yardley and Rutenberg, 2011;Donadio and Pianigiani, 2012). Arguably, the most notorious
example of this kind is provided by the case of Wikileaks, a not-for-profit media organization
which, as it declares itself, pursues the goal of sharing important news and information with
the public[2]. The issue of transparency gained wider notoriety when Wikileaks started its
activities of disclosing confidential governmental documents in 2006 and reached a peak
with the disclosure of US classified documents in 2010 (Wikileaks, 2012). Many view such
disclosure as an enhancement of democracy while others perceive it as a threat to national
security. At this point, it is clear that the modes of disclosure of information have drastically
changed, as was aptly summarized as follows: