Before Wikileaks, or even the Internet, there were just plain leaks. - Noam Cohen

From gadgets to social networks to video games, the decision not to embrace the newest technology is a choice to be out of the mainstream.

If someone today had the Pentagon Papers, or the modern equivalent, would he still go to the press, as Daniel Ellsberg did nearly 40 years ago, and wait for the documents to be analyzed and published? Or would that person simply post them online immediately?

Unlike in the United States, where freedom of expression is a fundamental right that supersedes other interests, Europe views an individual’s privacy and freedom of expression as almost equal rights.