I am still not exactly sure what Snowden did that was so beneficial to us. He broke secrecy laws and went about whistleblowing in the worst possible way. I cannot say if I will ever look at him as anything more than a traitor. I’m still deeply suspicious he’s not a Kim Philly of sorts.
Without Snowden's disclosures, we likely would still not know the global reach and pervasive nature of PRISM. We also would not know that much of the western world is complicit in this global surveillance program. [0]
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.
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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...