Just being mentioned in those %$#@! “files” is enough to ruin someone. Yes, there are a few “Guests” of Epstein in there, but far far more normal business dealings, and yes- victims.
Do we really want to hurt 10000 victims and ordinary people to find some dirt on a few dozen or so?
But Epstein survivors say the files appear to shield those who specifically enabled the convicted sex offender’s abuse, as well as other men who
A group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Justice and Google on Thursday over the release …
(sorry CNN is paywalled)
The Justice Department failed to black out identifying information about many of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and redacted the details of individuals who may have aided the convicted sex offender, prompting an outcry from survivors who accuse DOJ of botching the release of more than 3 million documents last week.
“To have pieces of my life be out there on display in that way, was really troublesome,” said Dani Bensky, who told CNN in a roundtable with Epstein survivors that her name, address and phone number were all initially in the files.
“And I know that I’m public now, yes, it hurts me — but it really hurts our survivor sisters who are still ‘Jane Does’ even more,” she added.
“I cannot live without looking over my shoulder,” a sexual abuse survivor told US lawmakers in May, describing how her personal information was publicly exposed in January, when the Department of Justice (DOJ) released hundreds of thousands of documents related to the financier Jeffrey Epstein. “I can only imagine the long-term impact this mistake will have on my life.”
Three days after the DOJ released the largest of 12 datasets on Epstein on January 30, a department lawyer told a federal court that “human or technical error” had been among the factors that led to the publishing of personally identifying information of people who had been sexually abused by Epstein and his associates. As a result, the DOJ said it would remove, review and redact flagged documents before republishing them.
DW’s investigative unit, along with its Innovation and Data teams, spent months reviewing thousands of documents released by the DOJ. In the six months since the release, DW identified dozens of files that still contained information — including names, faces and email addresses — that could be used to identify survivors, witnesses and informants, among other people.
So can we all agree that survivors, witnesses and informants info needs to be redacted?
“Under Pressure”