White House doxxing critics

[Tanuki]

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2017/7/14/15973464/white-house-election-integrity-doxx

..."Last month, the White House’s “election integrity” commission sent out requeststo 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 anyof 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."....(more)

[PurgedVoter]

1. K&R

[Docreed2003]

2. Whether intentional or idiotic....

This is unforgivable. As crazy as some of the Trump nutters are, I would be terrified if my phone number, address and email had been published! We must demand so level of responsibility from the administration for this ginormous fuckup.

[regnaD kciN]

3. "A big mistake"...yeah, right!

[SHRED]

4. WTF!?!?

[lapucelle]

5. Overheard

Donald: "I'm new at using computers. I'm a billionaire, not an IT guy"

Jared: "An aide accidentally pressed send."

Ivanka: "My father doesn't steal data; he curates data."

Eric: "So I'm not the dumb one?"

Tiffany: "I'm so glad that I'm not part of that family."

[oxbow]

6. They're going to get sued

Surely they broke some laws by posting private info without permission.

[Lyricalinklines]

7. "What do they expect for FREE?!!?"

"I mean, geez, we're giving the country all this leadership and advice! Haven't they heard of perks? Geez! "

Heard coming from the presidential party gathered to discus strategy.

[Sarcasm intended]

[nolabear]

8. They wouldn't know integrity if it bit them in the ass.

And I hope it does.

[flibbitygiblets]

9. Great tactic to discourage dissent, dont'cha think?

Also a great opportunity for some fancy-pants civil right lawdog to make a federal case of illustrating why these people can't be trusted with ANY personal info.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. In Europe, there would be criminal charges for breech of data privacy.

It's bizarre that in the Land of the Free, citizens do not have privacy protections that are taken for granted elsewhere around the world.

All the Trumpanzees who want gubmt to just leave them alone don't realize that fascists like Republican Trump love to keep records and databases.

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. this trump crime syndicate utterly sucks. Among the worst human beings ever.

[keithbvadu2]

12. It's not paranoia if your fears are proven true.

It's not paranoia if your fears are proven true.

[TNNurse]

13. Unintentional? yeah, sure.

[Skittles]

14. where did it say unintentional?

[oasis]

15. No doubt Steve Bannon is behind all of this crazy shit. nt