How Do You Redact a Document And Why?

How do you redact a document and why?

Wayne is correct that mistakes are what prevents redactions from being effective. Just look at all of the recent news stories where attempted redactions can be defeated by moving the black rectangle that someone drew , or a simple “select all, copy, paste”, to uncover privileged information. But being told not to make mistakes isn’t too helpful. Unless you’re only redacting a few documents of the same type on occasion, the work quickly becomes complex and time consuming. Digital documents may contain scads of extra information in comments, speaker notes, history, formula’s, custom properties, links, labels, charts, images, other embedded objects, etc. True, you could keep a list of all the different places to check for all of the document formats used by your organization and customers and hope you don’t miss anything. But don’t. In all but the smallest redaction jobs, you should use software made for placing redactions. Such software is faster and safer because it checks all of the places data might be hidden. It will find and draw attention to all of the information you might want to redact. And it will make sure you are removing the data correctly. Other good features include multi-document automation, review capabilities, collaboration, and delivery options. Praful makes a good case for AI redaction software. Using AI for this purpose has overtaken human performance in terms of accuracy in the past few years and it’s definitely faster for large volumes of documents when redacting more complex material. But, it can sometimes be overkill. If you just have a list of names you want removed from all of your documents, you don’t need AI. Of course, in good redaction software, AI is an additional feature, not the only feature.