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Is Your Email Address Public Data?

Posted by timothy on from the ayup-owah-no-way-mistah dept.

quackking writes "Are email addresses public records, accessible under public open-access laws in America? Up in Maine they are fighting about just this issue ..."

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  1. Information Wants to be Free by MrRudeDude · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Articles like this expose the sunshine patriots for what they are. All emails to public officials should be public data. If you want to keep an email secrete from me, DON'T EMAIL MY EMPLOYEES FROM THAT ADDRESS. That's right, public officials are my employees. My boss can read my email, and I can read my employees email. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; I don't care whose ox is being gored so long and it is good and dead.