If Elon emails "call me", Abbott picks up the phone. Doing illegal things over email is already risky from the point of view of not being able to redact when s

If Elon emails "call me", Abbott picks up the phone. Doing illegal things over email is already risky from the point of view of not being able to redact when supplying it to an investigator. The people actually inconvenienced by "public by default" are government departments trying to run a fair selection process involving detailed technical audits, or to provide support to companies that don't wish for their business plan to be public information. That's just a new hurdle that people proposing stuff which is completely legal have to cross when deciding whether to share any information with any public official ever.