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And if the state govement employee freely just hands massive amounts of personally identifiable information due to a FOI this is some how better.
by walshemj 8y ago
And if the state govement employee freely just hands massive amounts of personally identifiable information due to a FOI this is some how better.
- danso 8y agoFOI is a law mandating these public records be provided on request -- with various exemptions and allowances for redacting information that could be reasonably seen as a violation of privacy. It's not about being "somehow better", because legislators have deemed that bureaucrats cannot be trusted to decide whether transparency is a good thing. Consider the example you brought up -- it is against the law for a state employee to send a friend that kind of information, and I imagine that that law exists because politicians feared that kind of murderer scenario. How exactly does that murderer use a cache of email metadata and redacted messages to go after his victim?