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It was a reasonable ballpark. Let's say a city prosecutor was working on a organized crime case that involves the FBI and other people. Based on timing of emai
by united893 8y ago
It was a reasonable ballpark. Let's say a city prosecutor was working on a organized crime case that involves the FBI and other people.
Based on timing of emails this would leak the list of people working on the case, maybe informants and put them at risk.
We all lost our collective shit when NSA said they're only collecting metadata. Metadata is Data.
- Johnny555 8y agoSince they revised the cost for the data they actually sent him down from $33M to $56 (90 days of data at $1.25 for 2 days data), was a ballpark estimate that's over 500,000 times higher than the actual cost really reasonable?
- jakobegger 8y agoThe ballpark estimate was for checking the full text of each and every email (which was a misunderstanding -- the author wanted metadata only).
- slavik81 8y agoThe actual cost of servicing this request was much greater than the $56 estimate.
- late2part 8y agoEspecially after the city made a mistake!
- nzealand 8y ago$32M is not a cost the requestor bears, but an estimate of the cost the city bears. IT estimated the requestor fees to be $21k/year assuming 10TB of data. Clearly, IT were estimating the costs of releasing all email text, because FOIA mistakenly changed the words "please provide the following information:" to "including metadata:" Once they figured out the request was for header information only, the city came back with an estimate of under $60.
- jacquesm 8y ago> Metadata is Data And in many cases metadata is just as useful as the payload, in some cases even more useful.