Bush Email Dump Contained Highly Personal Information

Jeb Bush “decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida. On its face it seems like a great idea in the name of transparency, but there’s one huge problem: neither Bush nor those who facilitated the publication of the records, including the state government, decided to redact potentially sensitive personal information from them,” The Verge reports.

“We reviewed many of the emails released by Bush, and found a wide variety of communications — everything from religious parables, to praise of the governor’s support of creationism, to routine bureaucratic correspondence. But some of the emails appear to be highly sensitive or personal… Some include personal appeals from citizens with medical or employment issues. And a subset of these messages contain sensitive data like social security numbers.”