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[Music] Paul Mann affords Russia connections Facebook trade secrets weaknesses in the UK's nuclear submarine system all pieces of highly sensitive information that the world only found out about because of a simple mistake someone failed to properly redact a document redaction is the editing or censoring of information prior to its public release before paper went digital redactors used black markers whiteout or scissors to get the job done but word processors and PDF readers have made it a lot easier for redaction fails to happen redacted is hard because what you see on the screen isn't the same thing in the computer file so it's easy to look at a screen black out face or some text and believe that you've blacked it out in the file but it turns out someone's a little more skilled and look at the file that can often see what is in blacked out and when they're failures or redaction that's the failure the person doing the adapting doesn't really understand how the program works and makes that visual mistake take man affords lawyers they apparently didn't grasp that even if you black out a passage in a PDF the underlying text isn't permanently hidden unless you do something called merging the layers they didn't merge the layers in a court filing and ended up publicly revealing that manna Ford had met with a suspected Russian intelligence asset the revelations about manna Ford just made him look bad but redaction errors can have more serious consequences Samsung and it's lawyers were fined two million dollars after poor redaction led to the publication of details of a patent licensing agreement between Apple and Nokia players for the u.s. women's soccer team had their personal information including their home addresses leaked in a court filing worst of all Australian Federal Police accidentally revealed the personal details of an assault victim to the alleged perpetrator it is not a sufficient defense to just point at an illegal or secretary or support staff and go I didn't read that I didn't do it it was their fault when we as lawyers sign on to a document we are signifying them to know the content and we're responsible for and failure to do so in subject into sanctions by the court and those penalties can be monetary or they can be penalties against your point which is seriously one recent study suggested that Pacer the online database of federal court records likely contains tens of thousands of poorly redacted documents and pacer exemplifies the perils of redaction in the digital age it's easier for redactors to mess up and the consequences of doing so are much greater since digital documents spread further and faster than paper documents ever could maybe it's time to break out the black markers [Music] you