By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026In the ensuing litigation, Enron's bankruptcy overseers decided that it was too expensive to purge the company's email servers of personal information before entering it into evidence. 50/ 1201
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026That meant that once the court battles were over, *all the Enron employees' emails* entered the public domain as part of the court record: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_C... The "Enron Corpus" is a foundational data-set in modern computer science. 51/en.wikipedia.orgEnron Corpus - Wikipedia 1247
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/08/2026Academics analyzed the data to do pioneering work on machine learning and social graph theory, which found its way into the design and operations of social media companies, who learned how to spot and manipulate social connections by studying it. 52/ 1191
