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I wonder why the FBI would redact something like the date of birth of Paul J. Manafort – that's just a Google search away.
by hh3k0 5y ago
I wonder why the FBI would redact something like the date of birth of Paul J. Manafort – that's just a Google search away.
- tablespoon 5y agoI doubt "googlability" is a factor in decisions about redacting PII like that. They probably have a blanket rule to redact private information like dates of birth, SSNs, etc., at least for living people.
- hh3k0 5y agoYou're most probably right but one might think it'd be just as easy to skip it for public figures (where the info is accessible for anyone anyway) but yeah, there's probably some legal mumbo-jumbo preventing them. I just found it a bit bizarre to see something as accessible being redacted.
- 1MachineElf 5y agoThe simple truth is they do not want to be liable for leaking certain PII.