> I'm also pretty surprised that people think email metadata from government is legitimate open data. Do you think it should be public how many times you have e

> I'm also pretty surprised that people think email metadata from government is legitimate open data. Do you think it should be public how many times you have emailed government and gotten a response, and to which departments? I don't. on the surface i agree with you. beneath the surface, other governmental units already possess all the metadata for your emails/phone calls, it would be a weird bit of asymmetry to say it’s okay for them to have your metadata but not for you to have their metadata. it’s not a perfect mirror, for obvious reasons, but if OP went on to show that this metadata is powerful and push that neither side should be collecting that type of metadata, then that’s a single legitimate use i can think of for this kind of FOIA.