Certainly there were people other than the mayor involved. Mayors aren't autocrats. And regular worker/bureaucrats had to be doing the day-to-day collection and

Certainly there were people other than the mayor involved. Mayors aren't autocrats. And regular worker/bureaucrats had to be doing the day-to-day collection and dissemination of information. This is the reason why mass data collection by the likes of Google and Facebook is so dangerous; not because of whether we can trust people now to do the right thing with it but because it depends upon trusting future holders of that information. This whole situation is rather shocking to me. I feel naive. Which, as a deeply cynical and suspicious person, is not a good feeling.