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 removing content from a document to ensure confidentiality is a common practice that is all too frequently attempted with tools intended for other types of annotation.

A decade ago, the term ‘redacted’ would not have been widely used or understood unless you worked in the legal profession or had been involved in a court case. Searches on Google for ‘redacted’ and other similar terms have spiked since 2005, a trend that is likely to increase given the growing number of reported data breaches caused by improper or poor redaction technique and the growing body of government legislation aimed at protecting people’s personal information.