Wikileaks and Privacy

There has been talk about privacy on the internet with individuals. This has been discussed about what apple's contracts do when apple gets hold of information about you and spreads it to marketing compaines or possibly some actually dangerous hands on the net.

This is all very fine and well for individuals but what about what is happening with Wikileaks releasing documents on the Afganistan war and the public safety at large?

These documents contain various things including drones attacks that can be discribed as war crimes. Bradley Manning, Julian Assange (the Wikileaks founder), Wikileaks itself and others who support what Wikileaks is doing condone these war crimes and want the right to publish these documents to the world public. Yet others say (including the American government) that this can lead to bad things in America and around the world to the public safety and that the people listed above are the crooks.

When the issue of privacy is put in a situation like this it gets very contenous. The American government here seems to be like the individual who signs up to something on apple or creates a profile on facebook. They want to front a certain image of themselves, and yet could have a darker side that could be expressed on the internet. The internet is in a sense a stage for war, between the private and the public side of life and that these political notions are not just at the individual level but are at the levels of bigger bodies.