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Reform FOIA: anything that needs redaction needs to be held back in full.

The character length of redactions give a lot e.g. "yes...
azure ratface
  04/20/18
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transparent house
  04/20/18
Not necessarily held back in full, but at least reformatted....
Rambunctious school faggotry
  04/20/18


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Date: April 20th, 2018 7:00 AM
Author: azure ratface

The character length of redactions give a lot e.g. "yes" or "no"

Imagine a document absent mindedly first referring to "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" and then "KSA" for the rest of a document. How well would redactions do concealing that?

An individual redactor cannot fathom all the ways certain character lengths give away certain things that an elite mass crowd can or god forbid, A.I.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954567&forum_id=2#35880168)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 7:06 AM
Author: transparent house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954567&forum_id=2#35880175)



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Date: April 20th, 2018 7:58 AM
Author: Rambunctious school faggotry

Not necessarily held back in full, but at least reformatted. We're on the verge of having OCR good enough to just make all blanked-out portions the same length.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954567&forum_id=2#35880266)