Chapter 9. Packaging and Preparing Legal Documents

On a printed page, what you see is what you get since there isn’t anything aside from the paper and the ink printed on it. You don’t necessarily want everyone to see everything on a written page all the time, and a heavy black marker is all that’s needed to mask out sensitive information.

Obscuring confidential information works on a hard copy document. In a digital document what you see isn’t all there is. In fact, much of the data that makes up a document is actually hidden below the surface of the words and images—like an iceberg.

Redaction is a method used to remove confidential information from a document before final publication. Nowhere is the need for proper redaction, accompanied by ...

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