How ironic that this is published on the NYtimes of all places.
For those who do not remember 11th grade English:
If something is ironic it's unexpected, often in an amusing way. If you're the world chess champion, it would be pretty ironic if you lost a match to someone who just learned to play yesterday. Ironic is the adjective for the noun irony. In contemporary speech, when we call something ironic, we often mean sarcastic. [From www.vocabulary.com]I’m sure you can find other ironic examples of NYT disregarding the privacy of vulnerable people for their own interests.