With recent headlines highlighting the damage and embarrassment
that can be caused by poorly redacted documents, it is no wonder
many firms and corporates are turning to legal document management
specialists to secure their redactions.
Several news articles have highlighted that even in high profile
cases, such as proceedings against Facebook, Trump lobbyist Paul
Manafort and Hollywood actor Geoffrey Rush, documents have been
produced with ineffective redactions.
In each of these instances, text which should not have been
accessible within a document was able to be copied from the
documents and reviewed in full once transferred into a standard
text editor like Microsoft Word. Gaining access to this information
did not require sophisticated software or knowledge, but a simple
'copy and paste'.
