Jeb Bush just published thousands of citizens' names and email addresses

DailyDot.com

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush hasn’t even yet formally declared his desire to run for president in 2016, but he’s already started what appears to be a major privacy blunder.

His new project, the Jeb Emails, a massive, open database of correspondence to and from his jeb@jeb.org email address, publishes the names, messages, and email addresses of his constituents who emailed him during his eight years in office.

Whoops, someone forgot to remove personal information before publishing the emails.

Update 2:15pm ET, Feb. 10: It gets worse. The Verge has uncovered emails that contain Social Security numbers, home addresses, and other personal information from Floridians.

I appreciate his attempt to have full disclosure regarding his email correspondence with his constituents, but they really should have sanitized the data first...

You can peruse the emails here: jebemails.com

More info in the following articles:
Jeb Bush Basically Just Doxxed Thousands of Floridians (Gizmodo)
Jeb Bush publishes highly-sensitive emails: Report (CNBC)
Jeb Bush Publishes Eight Years of Emails From Time as Governor (newsweek)

a reply to: Elton

Well, obviously the doofus gene runs through the entire Bush family. It just might get worse with every generation too although it will still take more than exposing peoples private info to beat out dubya for the title of being Lord of the Idiots.

Thats nuts there are phone numbers and so on its crazy that all that info is available...a reply to: Elton

And people say that Jeb is the "smart one"?

Well this is bad...

You would think some digital sophistication would be a top priority post 2008 when it made such a huge difference.

On the upshot - maybe this means he intends to be far more transparent than the current administration? LoL!

Apparently Jeb is having some IT troubles and it's not just releasing the names of past supporters...

www.rawstory.com...

not a very auspicious beginning to a campaign eh?

a reply to: Elton

I never thought Jeb was a staunch privacy advocate anyhow. so whatever

Looks like some Democrat Committee operatives have infiltrated the ranks !!!

What, he forgot their bank account numbers? Will that be next?

a reply to: xuenchen

hillary's operatives.

originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: xuenchen

hillary's operatives.

Highly probable.

originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: xuenchen

hillary's operatives.

I'm just curious if you and xuenchen realize how destructive toward your credibility it is to say stuff like that within the context of this thread or others like it???

I mean sure you can always try and blow it off like you were just making a joke and stuff but let's be honest, you're not exactly joking are you?? Although I doubt you really believe such comments are true either which just means you're trolling. That's just bad form all around guys.

Plus it's just false. I absolutely do not support Hilary at all and I'm sure many others don't support her either.

Republicans are idiots just like Democrats and neither side needs help from the opposing side to prove that beyond any doubt.

Isn't it just easier to just blame the family dog when you fart?

Personal responsibility can be out right embarrassing.

< facepalm >

The Bush family's moron gene, in full swing again, I see. Even with this massive blunder in mind . . . He was still a better governor than Rick Scott.

I'm a little confused... was this a public email address, as in one he used for his job as Governor? If so, especially in Florida, that makes the entire content of the email public property and the senders of those emails had no expectation of privacy.

I'll be honest...as a conservative Republican, I hope he leaves the race and frees up massive amounts of campaign money for actual non-RHINO Republican candidates.
There's little difference between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton IMO.

a reply to: mOjOm

Looks like nerves are sensitive with this issue.

a reply to: xuenchen

That seems to be your "go to" phrase lately. Funny that you would try using such an "emotional" type of response to try and bait people in since I thought you always claimed it was the Left who uses "emotions" rather than logic.

Guess I'll mark you down for yet another false premise that you use. You're getting predictable. Better start improving your game.

This thread should be huge by now. The man may have just thrown away the presidency of the United States. I ran over to Freerepublic to see what the rightwingers had to say about this and they busily had quite a few people download the entire set of emails before it was pulled down (it's apparently off Bush's site now). They've got it all, and the comments are devastating. This is about the stupidest thing anyone in politics has done in a very long time, and will be looked upon as an epic turning point in the 2016 U.S. election.

a reply to: Aleister

It said in the article that the phone numbers had been removed. That would mean that someone did actually go through and scrub some of the info out at some point and yet missed all the rest. So once again, just like Dubya and 911 we are really looking at a situation where the choice of excuses comes down to either "Incompetence" or "Deliberate Intent to cause Harm", neither of which are going to go over real well.