Personal information that was shared in the recently released documents on the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, including Social Security numbers, has left those affected unhappy.
According to the Associated Press, included on that list is a former lawyer of President Donald Trump, Joseph diGenova, who had his personal information included with the file and is now planning to sue for violating privacy laws.
The National Archives and Records Administration will be the target of diGenova’s lawsuit, who cited concerns over potential identify theft.
“It should not have happened,” diGenova said in a phone interview with the AP. “I think it’s the result of incompetent people doing the reviewing. I don’t believe it had anything to do with rushing the process. The people who reviewed these documents did not do their job.”
The information was reportedly shared on documents related to diGenova’s work for a U.S. Senate select committee investigating government abuse of power and the surveillance of U.S. citizens in the 1970s.
White House officials said Thursday that they were working to fix the disclosure, including issuing new Social Security numbers to those affected and they are working to identify all numbers that were shared to the public.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that the National Archives and the Social Security Administration put an action plan together to help.
“President Trump delivered on his promise of maximum transparency by fully releasing the files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,” Leavitt. “At the request of the White House, the National Archives and the Social Security Administration immediately put together an action plan to proactively help individuals whose personal information was released in the files.”
The White House press office also released a statement from the National Archives.
“In an effort to maximize transparency, these records were released without redactions and some of these records contain the personal identification information of living individuals,” the statement said. “The National Archives and Records Administration and the Social Security Administration are working closely together to protect the individuals who may be affected from their information being exploited.”
