Last summer, a man named Matthew Chapman did what researchers, reporters, lawyers and others do thousands of times a year: He filed a public disclosure request with the City of Seattle. He wanted records of emails sent and received by employees of the city, but not necessarily the emails themselves. An employee at the city’s Department of Information Technology sent a routine acknowledgment of the request. But somewhere between when the request came in and the information went out, something went very wrong. Instead of the surface-level records to map the movement of emails, Chapman received the first 255 characters of every city email, as well as the subjects and headers, over a two-month period, totaling over 32 gigabytes of information. (Based on standard Lexis Nexis calculations, that size of release would be expected to contain more than 3 million full-length emails.) https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_2hSS2HM&d=DwIFaQ&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=b5NZPQUb9_r2rQ3Zd74ATT3aSs9yKyRnJLOhqJvd7fE&m=sCuCdUK1JJ-NFhMymSHlC7x4uroLspTB7kQImH9DN2A&s=igSxeG2J_XV0Wpr8cyAXuv0-9TzZBl-YGwOLbxCRjeY&e= https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bit.ly_2hSS2HM-2B&d=DwIFaQ&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=b5NZPQUb9_r2rQ3Zd74ATT3aSs9yKyRnJLOhqJvd7fE&m=sCuCdUK1JJ-NFhMymSHlC7x4uroLspTB7kQImH9DN2A&s=91-IPiTfrizDIG_-Z0XW7nlZ8OgK701oEEokYD2Y53Q&e= -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__emailcharter.org&d=DwIFaQ&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=b5NZPQUb9_r2rQ3Zd74ATT3aSs9yKyRnJLOhqJvd7fE&m=sCuCdUK1JJ-NFhMymSHlC7x4uroLspTB7kQImH9DN2A&s=lKVWOv_TqZi9g83d0em2nd795AaJT-ff0XkH8BanKbw&e= “If only there were a massive entity that I were forced to fund to tell me how I should live my life, since I’m so obviously incapable of deciding for myself.” M. Hashimoto List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
