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Re:Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax h... by xg15 on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:00AM (#11420141)
Indeed the website looks very good - and analyzing and presenting such a huge amount of data deserves respect.

But I was also wondering why this leak had to be embargoed for a year. Why not release the complete raw data very quickly (with irrelevant, privacy-sensitive areas visibly redacted) and follow up with a detailed analysis later?

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Re:Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax h... by pilsetnieks on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:53AM (#11420313)
> Why not release the complete raw data very quickly (with irrelevant, privacy-sensitive areas visibly redacted)

Did you see the sheer volume of the data? You cannot redact 11+ million documents quickly.

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