The black redaction box is meant to protect sensitive information from public view. It’s supposed to be an impenetrable curtain. But sometimes that curtain is surprisingly easy to raise. And when that ...

Learn how to mark text and images, apply redactions, and save a clean PDF copy in Adobe Acrobat so sensitive details stay ...

In the last several weeks, I ran across two documents written by lawyers that looked redacted—but all the supposedly secret information in them could be extracted with literally three keystrokes (ctrl ...

The convergence of rapidly growing cyberattacks and increasingly strict data privacy regulations has companies stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, enterprise data is being targeted by ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

As we wait for tomorrow’s follies, I thought it would be interesting to take a detour into the history of the words ‘redaction’ and ‘redact’. Today we know these words refer to those heavy-handed ...

I am holding in my hands a copy of a cloth-bound, coffee-table-sized book that its creators say is meant to be torn apart the way that, as a kid, you might have ripped full pages out of a magazine to ...

[I first posted a version of this post in 2020, but I've seen the problem enough since to think it was worth mentioning again.] I have often run across documents written by lawyers that looked ...