| For all emails sent to/from any Seattle owned email address in 2017, please provide the following information: 1. From address
2. To address
3. bcc addresses
4. cc addresses
5. Time
6. Date Is this really a reasonable request that the government is expected to answer? Doesn't this expose a bunch of private information about government employees and the people they interact with? I understand this post (and apparently the law) takes this as completely normal thing, but it seems really weird to me. Some examples: * exact times people are getting in/out the office (eg. the time in the morning when a person first answers an email from their boss) * full information about holidays taken by all employees (eg. days/weeks during which no emails are sent) * friendships or relationships (eg. any communication between employees that doesn't follow from the hierarchy or from team delineations) * information from criminal investigations (eg. an investigator sending an email to the parking fine department probably means one of the cases they're working on is related to parking fines) This all seems a huge privacy leak? Should this stuff even be called "metadata" if so much can be derived from it? |