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The teenager was downloading publicly available records on a Freedom-Of-Information portal. Why law enforcement is involved, or why this is even remotely a crim
by udia 8y ago
The teenager was downloading publicly available records on a Freedom-Of-Information portal. Why law enforcement is involved, or why this is even remotely a criminal act, completely baffles me.
- drb91 8y agoIt’s easier to prosecute than to fix. More than that, the kid pointed out the service is broken. Pretty humiliating. It’s not at all unusual to prosecute to save face, especially rather than admit that your org gave the info to a teenager when that’s illegal.
- Scoundreller 8y agoI think it also included records of the submitter (private data). Sometimes you get Freedom of Information Act information because you got an individual's consent to release information that would otherwise not be released (e.g. something about your spouse/family member that consented to the information not being redacted). Perhaps the same portal handled Privacy Act requests where people requested their own information that the government holds.