Apart from spam
Who deletes emails?
Wikimedia UK, the national charity supporting Wikipedia and its sister projects, has told the MP and former Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps he can't see internal emails he has requested under the Data Protection Act ... because it has deleted them. One of the charity's own staff was censured after being involved in …
I cant imagine anyone worth their salt is running an email system that doesn't have a red hot backup of 3-4 month old data.
I'm also very dubious that a decent size organisation - presumably with an enterprise level email system - has a policy that allows permanent deletes.
I bet they never even asked their email SA about it. Or if they did only to ask him to erase all traces.
I'll start caring about the damage done to Shapps when he's thrown out of his party for his other activities. Even if the allegations weren't true in this case he's hardly whiter-than-white after all.
Can we file an FoIA request on Shapps and his activities as Michael Green? (what's good for the goose and all that)
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/16/grant-shapps-urged-to-quit-over-second-job-under-michael-green-pseudonym
> FoI does apply if a charity gets a significant portion of its funding from government
Ummm... unless you have some evidence for that, I'm not convinced. The Act says it is An Act to make provision for the disclosure of information held by public authorities or by persons providing services for them, and it defines 'public authorities' in a long inclusive list at Schedule 1, which includes exactly no charities at all. I could just about see how some of the "charities" which are really sub-contractors to Government departments might get hauled in, after some wrangling, but merely getting a chunk of money from public sources does not make a charity subject to the FOIA, as far as I can see. IANAL, of course.