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US Treasury to Post Previously Private Email Addresses Online

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the liars-damn-liars-and-statisticians dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After receiving around 10 thousand comments about a government proceeding and after promising not to reveal personal info from those comments online, the US Treasury department decided to post email addresses of those who commented online. Sounds like they don't want any more comments about government proceedings. The email harvesters are going to have a great time."

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  1. Not so bad by Nasarius · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're only not bothering to strip email addresses contained within the submitted comments themselves. As long as you didn't sign your comment or anything, it should be more or less anonymous.

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  2. Re:Thanks for nothin' by BWJones · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hey now, just because you cant afford your own "undisclosed location" dont be player hating our VP.

    Actually, we have our own little "undisclosed location" just down the road from our VP's "undisclosed location" in Jackson Wyoming. :-)

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