How did you get the text of the emails? We didn’t think we posted it or share it with you, and you’ve included information we didn’t think we posted, including the name of a previously anonymous member of Vetted Causes.
Uh oh! The emails you shared do include the full text, but with black bars added on top in Google Slides. This doesn’t actually remove the information, and is a mistake people sometimes make when trying to redact things. Because I used an LLM to transcribe the emails, which used the underlying images, I ended up with the unredacted text. I’ve now gone through my comment above and put [redacted] anywhere I see a black bar, but you should be aware that the information is still in your slides for anyone to extract.
How did you get the text of the emails? We didn’t think we posted it or share it with you, and you’ve included information we didn’t think we posted, including the name of a previously anonymous member of Vetted Causes.
Uh oh! The emails you shared do include the full text, but with black bars added on top in Google Slides. This doesn’t actually remove the information, and is a mistake people sometimes make when trying to redact things. Because I used an LLM to transcribe the emails, which used the underlying images, I ended up with the unredacted text. I’ve now gone through my comment above and put
[redacted]anywhere I see a black bar, but you should be aware that the information is still in your slides for anyone to extract.Thanks for letting us know! Thankfully there was nothing that important that we covered in black bars.
In the future the most reliable way to redact a screenshot is:
Open the screenshot and add the black bars
Save the edited screenshot as PNG
Since PNG doesn’t support layers or history, the redacted information is reliably no longer present.
Thanks for the tip! We’ve implemented it.