Britain's freedom of information watchdog has warned government ministers that the WikiLeaks revelations mean they can no longer assume they are operating in private.
Information Commissioner Christopher Graham says rather than "clamming up", ministers need to "wise up" to the fact that almost any official communication can potentially be made public.
The Guardian newspaper quotes him as saying when ministers are open, things will not be Wikileaked.
"Whatever view you take about WikiLeaks - right or wrong - it means that things will now get out. It has changed things. I'm saying government and authorities need to factor it in", he said.
The whistle-blowing website has released hundreds of thousands of secret US documents about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq plus a slew of secret diplomatic cables, sparking an angry response in Washington.
