Personal info released in Bush emails


  • February 13, 2015
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   entrecon
Whoops. Former Florida Governor — and possible would-be presidential candidate — Jeb Bush is writing a book based on the emails he received as governor. But when thousands of the electronic correspondences were released publicly, personal information including Social Security numbers, birth dates and names, were not redacted. Here is the Guardian's story about the incident.
Bush had opened up the 332,999 emails to public scrutiny, seeking to portray himself as a tech-savvy executive, in touch with constituents and an active administrator. But tucked away in some of the messages were the personal details of thousands of people. “This was obviously very innocent,” said Todd Feinman, the chief executive of data security firm Identity Finder. “But now we have more than 12,000 individuals who are exposed to the risks of identity fraud.” By Thursday Bush’s team had removed the private information from all but a few hundred of the emails that were posted to a website on Tuesday. “We have redacted every account that we have found,” Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell said.
  Read The Guardian's story here.
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