The NY Times has caught up with the Enron email corpus that has been
widely used in IR research in the past year or so.
Drago
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/22/weekinreview/22kola.html?
Enron Offers an Unlikely Boost to E-Mail Surveillance
By GINA KOLATA
Published: May 22, 2005
AS an object of modern surveillance, e-mail is both reassuring and
troubling. It is a potential treasure trove for investigators
monitoring suspected terrorists and other criminals, but it also
creates the potential for abuse, by giving businesses and government
agencies an efficient means of monitoring the attitudes and activities
of employees and citizens.
Now the science of e-mail tracking and analysis has been given a
unlikely boost by a bitter chapter in the history of corporate
malfeasance - the Enron scandal.
In 2003, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission posted the
company's e-mail on its Web site, about 1.5 million messages.
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