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Trump had Epstein killed because he was going to "name names," Epstein's brother claims
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Is that what the DOJ is dealing with? 4x3s?
It sounds like your ability x 20 would have it done by the deadline.
I guarantee the evidence will include lots of document formats. It's not all emails.
And photographs are a huge problem because sometimes photos will have documents visible in the background, or other picturesin the pictures. Text on piece of paper on the table behind someone will not be easily recognized by software, but a human may be able to piece stuff together - especially if ther's context available from information gleaned elsewhere in the release.
It's not directly related, but I'll use an example from some epidemiological research I was doing for HHS a few years back on gonorrhea when we had to look out for HIPAA violations. To do that, or spatial data was going to be anonymized by limiting the precision to the census tract level.
The issue we ran into was sometimes that wasn't good enough. If you know a diagnosis was on January 14th and the patient lived in X census tract and was an African American female between the ages of 35 and 40 that is sufficiently anonymous unless there's only 3 african american women in the tract on the most recent census, and the appraisal district shows that it's all single-family homes and by using ownership records and some Google searching you can figure out that there's only one match for that age and race combination on that date, so you know that Jane Smith on 123 Maple Street has gonorrhea.
That's the kind of shit you have to look out for. Data that can be combined with other information to reveal something that you're trying not to reveal - like STI patients or SA victims. And not all of that information can be easily recognized autonomously. It massively increases the workload if an honest effort is to be made to redact what legally should be redacted while revealing the information the public is legally entitled to.
But honesty is an issue for this administration, so they're absolutely gonna redact a bunch of shit they shouldn't and will end up failing tonredact a bunch of stuff they should. The fact that the job is incredibly difficult doesn't excuse their evil and incompetence - it magnifies it.
Ok fair enough. I know it is when things like this cross your own area of expertise. Devil's in the details.
This administration campaigned on this, talked about this. I guess my point is not opposed to what you are saying other than - clearly they were not actually "working" on this
Absolutely. And they should have been working on this since January when the judicial seal on releaseing the files (for Maxwell appeals) was lifted. One month is nearly impossible. 11 months is plenty.