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Jeb Bush's email release dumps constituents' personal data online

  • 11 February 2015
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By Zach Miners
 

The emails posted on a Bush website included personal info, including Social Security numbers.

 
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor now contemplating a run for U.S. president, may not have privacy high on his agenda.
On Tuesday, Bush published online hundreds of thousands of emails he received during his time as governor, between 1999 and 2007. The emails touch on a range of issues including taxes, legislative proposals and affirmative action. Bush says they will form the basis of an ebook about his life as governor.
Many of them are benign. "Governor Bush, thanks for your continued commitment to our education system," says one from 2005. Another asks Bush to organize a symposium on data theft and fraudulent credit card transactions.
But some reveal people's personal information, including cell phone numbers, home addresses and even Social Security numbers, according to news reports.
 
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Jeb Bush's email cache held another surprise: Old computer viruses.

By Martyn Williams
 
In addition to personal phone numbers and email addresses for hundreds of people who corresponded with him, there's something else inside the cache of emails that Jeb Bush released this week: computer viruses.
 
Earlier this week, Bush, who some tip as a presidential hopeful, released thousands of emails from his time as governor of Florida, when he promoted his "jeb@jeb.org" email address as a way for voters to interact with him. The emails were released unredacted -- a deliberate move intended to demonstrate transparency but one that backfired because the messages included the names, email addresses and phone numbers of thousands of people.
 
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