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Toil & Trouble
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How to handle a deluge of private information requests

A growing number of vexatious requests are sucking up organisations’ time and resources.

WATCH: Simpson Grierson senior associate Rachel Nightingale speaks with NBR senior journalist Fiona Rotherham.

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An academic dismissed from his university position requested all of his work emails from a 12-month period of his employment.

That amounted to about 12,000 emails and was something the university didn’t feel it had to agree to because of the hassle and the fact it viewed them as their property,

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Fiona Rotherham Tue, 26 May 2026
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