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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vinay Goel is CEO of Wald.ai. He was the Chief Digital Officer at JLL and led products at companies like Google, CheckPoint and Webroot. Many companies have implemented conversational assistants.

There may be times when your business needs to share sensitive documents with third parties without sharing confidential information on the documents. In those cases, you may find yourself needing to ...

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 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 ...