The White House just posted the emails of critics without censoring sensitive personal information

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] [INCOMPETENT and ILLEGAL] The White House just posted the emails of critics without censoring 
> sensitive personal information
> Date: July 14, 2017 at 4:31:10 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
>
>
> [INCOMPETENT and ILLEGAL] The White House just posted the emails of critics without censoring sensitive personal 
> information
>
> https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/14/15973464/white-house-election-integrity-doxx
>
>       The White House just responded to concerns it would release
>       voters' sensitive personal information by releasing a bunch of
>       voters' sensitive personal information.  Last month, the White
>       House's "election integrity" commission sent out requests to
>       every state asking for all voters' names, party IDs,
>       addresses, and even the last four digits of their Social
>       Security numbers, among other information.  The White House
>       then said this information would be made available to the
>       public.  A lot of people did not like the idea, fearing that
>       their personal information could be made public. So some sent
>       emails to the White House, demanding that it rescind the
>       request.  This week, the White House decided to make those
>       emails from concerned citizens public through the commission's
>       new website. But the administration made a big mistake: It
>       didn't censor any of the personal information -- such as
>       names, email addresses, actual addresses, and phone numbers --
>       included in those emails.  In effect, the White House just
>       released the sensitive personal information of a lot of
>       concerned citizens giving feedback to their government. That's
>       made even worse by the fact that the White House did this when
>       the thing citizens were complaining about was the possibility
>       that their private information would be made public.  As of
>       Friday afternoon, the emails are still uncensored and
>       available on the White House's website. They include all sorts
>       of feedback, from concerns about privacy to outright insults
>       of the Trump administration. One email just links to an image
>       of the terrifying pornographic meme Goatse. (Do not Google
>       this if you value your eyes.)
>
> - - -
>
> --Lauren--




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