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Requests for information about living people are covered by Privacy Act (PA) requests, not FOIA requests. https://m.fbi.gov/#https://www.fbi.gov/foia/requestin

• toomuchtodo 11y ago
  The original post I replied to asked: > "If you are requesting information on a deceased individual, you will need to upload proof of death unless the deceased individual is more than 100 years old." > The FBI doesn't know who is dead? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10660342 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10660342 I'm simply showing a) they do and b) they could make it much easier for specifying this in your request and verifying it.