I wonder why the FBI would redact something like the date of birth of Paul J. Manafort – that's just a Google search away.
I 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.
You'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.
The simple truth is they do not want to be liable for leaking certain PII.
>Contributed by Zack Stieber (Epoch Times)
Doesn’t work on my phone, any interesting info?
68 page PDF. I'm sure people will comb through and post about stuff they find.
> “given [redacted] it is conceivable that an individual or group would want to pay for his death.”
For anyone interested in the above quote, it's on page 50.