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The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M emails for $40 (2018)

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Re: The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M emails for $40 (2018)

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Post by froh »

wow!

in Europe, this request

  1. From address
  2. To address
  3. bcc addresses
  4. cc addresses
  5. Time
  6. Date
correlates person-related information (who was in contact with whom at which date and time). storing it, let alone processing it is only admissible on a need to know basis. even if you jump through the hoop of an officer acting on behalf of Seattle is not a person any more, which is a stretch already, even then all email addresses outside the Seattle gov domain are completely taboo without a court order and a cause (and being criminal investigator)

oh privacy ...

Re: The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M emails for $40 (2018)

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Post by chaps »

mordechai9000 wrote: post #3
chaps wrote: post #2

Hah, that's a much simpler title. :)

Is this your site? It's not loading for me - I think we gave it the ol' Hacker News denial of service.

Weird! Not somewhere where I can give it more juice, but in the meantime try this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230129193630/https://mchap.io/...

Re: The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M emails for $40 (2018)

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Post by nostromo »

froh wrote: post #4

wow! in Europe, this request 1. From address 2. To address 3. bcc addresses 4. cc addresses 5. Time 6. Date correlates person-related information (who was in contact with whom at which date and time). storing it, let alone processing it is only admissible on a need to know basis. even if you jump through the hoop of an officer acting on behalf of Seattle is not a person any more, which is a stretch already, even then…

In the US emails to and from government workers are generally considered public record. It's important for transparency.
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