Document Productions, Confidential Information, Redaction

Key Discovery Points: Lessons Learned from TikTok’s Redaction Fiasco

Nextpoint, Inc. on 11/26/2024

This video kicks off Key Discovery Points, a new series covering ediscovery and legal tech news and current events. Brett Burney of Nextpoint joins Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today to discuss TikTok's recent redaction fiasco...more

More than Drawing a Black Box: How to Get Redactions Right for eDiscovery Production

Reveal on 7/13/2020

For most people, redacted documents are the material of spy movies and political scandal. But here in the world of eDiscovery and FOIA requests, they’re a part of everyday life. But that doesn’t mean they’re to be taken...more

Invisible Data Can Sink Your Titanic

Association of Certified E-Discovery... on 2/6/2019

Unpleasant news about sensitive data leaks are making big headlines these days. Paul Manafort’s attorneys just created one after a failed attempt to redact sensitive information in a recent filing. In this case, there was no...more

When Redactions Don’t Redact

Perkins Coie on 1/17/2019

The press has widely reported on Paul Manafort’s attorneys’ failed attempt to redact sensitive information in a recent legal filing, allowing the press to uncover and publish the very information the attorneys intended to...more

Redacting Sensitive But Not Privileged Information: Surveying the Cases For and Against – PART ONE

Kilpatrick on 8/8/2018

We have previously written about the perils of redacting non-responsive but sensitive material during pre-trial discovery in the context of a Wisconsin court’s ruling prohibiting such redactions. IDC Fin. Publ’g, Inc. v....more

Redaction Redux — Be a Do-Bee, Not a Don’t-Bee

Fenwick & West LLP on 10/18/2013

Despite many well-publicized gaffes in legal, political and business arenas, many folks do not properly electronically redact sensitive information before letting a document loose into the wild. Supposedly blacked-out or...more