By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026But the company execs decided they didn't want to spend the money to weed out the irrelevant emails before the court-mandated disclosure, so instead they published *all the emails ever sent or received by anyone at Enron*. 6/ 1271
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026That included tons of extremely private, personal, sensitive information relating to Enron's employees and customers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_C... This became the "Enron Corpus" and it was the first large tranche of emails that were in the public domain and available to researchers. 7/en.wikipedia.orgEnron Corpus - Wikipedia 1282
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/05/2026As a result, it became the gold standard dataset for researchers investigating social graphs, natural language, and many other subjects that subsequently became very important computer science fields and commercial applications. 8/ 1321
