I don’t think timestamps themselves are PII, they tell you when but not who.
I think the problem is legal is demanding they edit the files to remove names of former employees, since that is PII - and doing so destroys the timestamps (and can damage the file format if not done carefully with respect to encodings etc)
Simple solution: upload a DIR of the original floppies. That will tell us the original timestamps, without revealing that PII
Advanced solution: someone create a toolkit for redacting disk images which records the exact byte locations redacted. The whole “former employee names are PII so we have to censor them” thing is a bit stupid, but sometimes you get further by doing the best you can within legal’s constraints instead of fighting them
I think the problem is legal is demanding they edit the files to remove names of former employees, since that is PII - and doing so destroys the timestamps (and can damage the file format if not done carefully with respect to encodings etc)
Simple solution: upload a DIR of the original floppies. That will tell us the original timestamps, without revealing that PII
Advanced solution: someone create a toolkit for redacting disk images which records the exact byte locations redacted. The whole “former employee names are PII so we have to censor them” thing is a bit stupid, but sometimes you get further by doing the best you can within legal’s constraints instead of fighting them