Security & Privacy Articles

A single incorrectly redacted court filing can expose privileged information, trigger sanctions, and make headlines. Here's how to redact legal documents so the underlying text truly can't be recovered.

An Explanation of Benefits or claims file carries policy numbers, contact details, and often health information — most of it unnecessary for whoever you're sharing the document with next.

A rental application, loan, or visa often asks for a bank statement — but not your full account and routing numbers. Here's how to redact just those, permanently, while keeping the rest of the document readable.

A Subject Access Request means disclosing someone's personal data — but any third party mentioned in the same documents has to be protected first. Here's what to redact, and how to make sure it's actually removed.

Foxit's Smart Redact adds AI detection on top of a Foxit PDF Editor+ subscription. If what you actually need is permanent removal of the fields you already know about, that's a lot of product to buy for it.

FOIA doesn't mean everything gets disclosed — nine exemptions let agencies withhold specific categories of information. Here's what they cover, and how to redact a document permanently once you've decided what to remove.

A transcript, certificate, or class roster released to one student or a researcher often names other students too. FERPA requires that data come out — permanently — before anything goes out the door.

When the DOJ released nearly 30,000 Epstein-related documents in December 2025, some "redacted" text turned out to be recoverable with a simple copy and paste. Here's what actually happened — and how to make sure it never happens to your PDFs.

A solid black rectangle over text looks like redaction, but the words underneath are usually still there — selectable, searchable, and copyable. Here's why the black box fails, and what a real redaction control looks like instead.