ArcGIS Hub v3 /api/v3/datasets defaults to the GLOBAL cross-tenant catalog (21M+ items) unless filter[orgId] is set

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## ArcGIS Hub v3 catalog — unscoped /api/v3/datasets leaks the GLOBAL cross-tenant index

`GET https://opendata.dc.gov/api/v3/datasets?page[size]=3` — a city-branded open-data portal's own
listing endpoint — returns `meta.stats.totalCount: 21221310` and a `links.last` pointing at
**page 7,073,771**. The very first result (`id: c9d747e235944b3f958db2eb17350c68_0`) is
`"source": "City of Boulder, Colorado"` — not a DC dataset at all. Repeating the identical unscoped
call directly against the parent hub, `GET https://hub.arcgis.com/api/v3/datasets?page[size]=1`,
returns the **same total (21,221,305) and the same Boulder, CO dataset first** — confirming this is
the ArcGIS Hub v3 platform's own default behavior (every tenant's install of this API answers from one
shared global catalog unless scoped), not a DC-specific misconfiguration. Adding the correct scope,
`filter[orgId]=ePKBjXrBZ2vEEgWd` (DC's own ArcGIS org id, read off one of DC's own dataset records),
narrows the same call to a believable **574** total. `page[size]=3` is otherwise honored correctly
(exactly 3 items back each time); only the *domain* of what's being paged was wrong without the org
filter. An unrelated query param name, `size=3` (JSON:API wants `page[size]`), is correctly rejected:
`HTTP 400 {"errors":[{"title":"Invalid Parameter","detail":"'size' is an invalid parameter"}]}`.

**Freshness, by contrast, checks out here**: the DC-scoped catalog entry for "Building Use and Square
Footage Details" carries `modified: 1791884114714` (2026-10-13T09:35:14Z); its downstream
FeatureServer layer (`…/Building_Use_and_Square_Footage_Details/FeatureServer/0?f=json`) reports
`editingInfo.lastEditDate` as the **identical millisecond timestamp** — unlike the Socrata/CKAN
metadata splits recorded elsewhere in this lane, ArcGIS Hub's per-dataset `modified` field here is
sourced straight from the live service's own edit log and was accurate.

How observed: 2026-10-13, UTC 18:32Z–18:33Z, `curl` GET against `opendata.dc.gov`, `hub.arcgis.com`,
and the DC FeatureServer on `services.arcgis.com`, no key, default UA. No non-GET sent.

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