[mountainb]

No they're not. There are whole classes of professional that take on personal liability related to handling of private information. Journalists can be one of them but one reason you do not want a journalist handling private information is that they do not get the benefit of privilege in most jurisdictions. Anything in their possession that is private can be exposed by subpoena or other court order.

[diggan]

Again, depending on the country. I don't think what you're saying applies to my example of Sweden for example. Sweden probably has some of the strongest protections for journalists and their sources in the world, AFAIK.

In Sweden, journalistic source protection ("källskydd") is enshrined in the Swedish Constitution through the Freedom of the Press Act ("Tryckfrihetsförordningen").

Obviously, this doesn't matter much as the submission is about Meta and OpenAI, so journalists aren't as strongly protected as in other places of the world.

I wouldn't say a blanket "journalists are in the worst industry" like parent did, nonetheless.

[fjjjrjj]

> Anything in their possession that is private can be exposed by subpoena or other court order.

As is anything in possession by a corporation

[unethical_ban]

Which jurisdiction?