Government Accountability Project v. U.S. Department of State

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• holding that agency properly redacted personal email addresses of applicants for board positions
• finding that the State Department demonstrated that 1 Plaintiffs complain that defendant failed to clarify, from the outset of the litigation, its position that every redaction labeled “(b)(1)” is based on Executive Order 13526 § 1.4(b) and § 1.4(d
• finding e-mail addresses among the types of personal information that may properly be withheld as similar files under Exemption 6
• upholding agency’s redaction of personal e-mail addresses of applicants for board positions; stating that “the private individuals mentioned in these records have a clear privacy interest in avoiding the disclosure of their personal email addresses”
• recogniz- ing that email addresses “can be identified as applying to par- ticular individuals” (emphasis added)
• “Because those email addresses can be identified as applying to particular individuals, they qualify as ‘similar files’ under Exemption 6 . . . .”

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