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Why Our Google Drive Redaction App Uses the drive.file Scope (and Never Uploads Your PDF)

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When we decided to let people redact PDFs from Google Drive™, the first design question wasn't about redaction at all. It was: how little access can we get away with? A redaction tool is, by definition, handed the most sensitive documents someone owns. Asking for full Drive access would have been t…

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  1. 2026-10-13 16:08 · DEV Community — AI
    Why Our Google Drive Redaction App Uses the drive.file Scope (and Never Uploads Your PDF)

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