[Peace-discuss] UIUC/state employees, beware of how you use your work e-mail

[C G Estabrook]

Did you think you were required to answer the question, or could you just not answer?


> On Jul 24, 2019, at 1:34 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> FYI to University and other State employees - be 'ware of how you use your work e-mail.
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> Yesterday I received a Freedom-of-Information-Act request, which an "opposition research" company had sent to the University FOIA office.   It asked whether Stuart Levy had sent any e-mails related to Ilhan Omar between Feb 1st and mid-July.
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> With my UIUC e-mail, I hadn't sent any, and likewise for the (very few) work-related e-mails I'd sent using my personal gmail -- so the answer was No.
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> I've asked my coworkers - none of them has received such a FOIA request.   If you hear from anyone else who got a similar req, please let us all know.    It'd be interesting if we can guess how they're singling out particular people.
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> The people making the request were from America Rising, which Wikipedia describes as an opposition research group against Dems.   They've also dug for dirt on USEPA employees who don't toe the Trump line.   Presumably here they are looking for academics supporting the best members of Congress - maybe for the purposes of discrediting academia.    In short I assume they're trying to intimidate us into shutting ourselves up.
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> (The guy who wrote to the UIUC FOIA office was one Allan Blutstein, their "Senior VP for FOIA operations" -- they make an industry of these requests.)
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>     Stuart
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