How far to respect the source's wishes regarding controls on the material is a tricky area. In this case, the source was happy with releasing large amounts of raw data. In the NSA leaks, Snowden wasn't, and he imposed a condition on Greenwald and Poitras not to release everything.

Does the journalist have more responsibility to the source or to the global population? Many people disagree with Wikileaks style raw data dumps irrespective of the source's wishes.

In summary, the ethics of leaking is complicated!

> Many people disagree with Wikileaks style raw data dumps irrespective of the source's wishes.

I found it extremely ridiculous how WikiLeaks attacked the Panama Papers leaker multiple times for not leaking full data to the public and accused my organization of intentionally targeting eastern countries because one of our donors is USAID, when, according to the official statement by the leaker that came out a couple of days ago, the leaker tried contacting WikiLeaks multiple times and then decided to pursue another way once he realized that WikiLeaks simply isn't responding to him.

The database available isn't the raw data though. It's just the curated neo4j dataset, in CSV format. About 40MB in total.