In this email leak, it is all emails from members of the party, not just elected officials. It is also emails sent from the outside to party members. Is that going too far? In term of transparency, allowing the public to see everything that happens and communicate within a political party would give some insight in what kind of people a party is made from.

It is definitely an interesting discussion to have in where the lines should be drawn in transparency and public insight into political landscape and behavior inside it. In Sweden, every person, regardless of position, has their income as public information. How much a person pay it taxes is also public information, so in some sense you can guess how much assets a person own and how much they have in the bank based on what they declared.

> I do think politicians should waive some privacy rights when elected. Same thing for their bank accounts and other assets.

This would make surveillance laws socially much more acceptable. The politicians will claim:

- "We are surveilled anyway, so we can pass surveillance laws against citizens, too.", or

- "The citizens really ask for surveillance laws against specific groups (in this case: politicians). So, we will, of course, give the citizens what they want and pass surveillance laws against potential terrorists/child abusers/[whatever is currently fashionable]".

If you consider privacy or the right not to be surveilled to be important, this better should hold for the enemy (politicians).