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 ...

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 ...

This post is part one in a series examining privacy and transparency issues in the context of public access to digital court records, building on my essay “Digital Court Records Access, Social Justice ...

After WSJ flagged exposed Epstein victim names in DOJ files, the department pulled thousands of documents, citing human error and re-redaction.

Google has published new documentation for the GA4 Data Redaction feature that prevents accidentally sending personally identifiable information (PII) to Google. This makes it easier to conform to ...

One of the greatest risks a business can face is the inadvertent disclosure of privileged or confidential information. This can result in huge fines and loss of professional reputation. Permanently ...

[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 ...

Following Reveal's Acquisition of Blackout Source Code, the Redaction Technology is Now Fully Integrated onto Reveal's Platform; Coming to Reveal Logikcull early 2026. The full deployment to ...

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 ...