Andy Rubin apologizes for Essential’s “humiliating” customer data leak

After requiring customers who ordered the Essential phone to provide their driver’s license information over email to verify their shipping address, CEO Andy Rubin today apologized for the incident in a blog post, calling it “humiliating” and that he is “personally responsible for this error.”
The Android creator starts the apology note with a boo hoo about how “thousands of micro-decisions” (including one to ask for driver’s licenses over email, e