redact
Obscure sensitive text
To redact is to edit or prepare text for publication, but in contemporary usage it almost always means to censor by blacking out or removing sensitive information: The FBI released the documents with names and dates redacted.
Heavily redacted pages appear with large black bars obscuring portions of text.
The noun redaction refers to both the process and the result.
Complete power loss
- suppressForcibly put an end to
- expurgateRemove offensive material
- bowdlerizeRemove objectionable content
- sanitizeCleanse of pathogens
obscure · mask · silence · withhold · restrict · censorship · blanked · removed
Remove or erase
- removeTake something away
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- cutSeverance or reduction
- eraseRemove recorded marks
omit · excise · truncate · abridge · shorten · blue-pencil · mark-up · revision
Remove identifying information
- confidentialityQuality of protecting secrets
- PIIIdentity-revealing information
- HIPAAMedical privacy statute
- GDPREU data protection law
sensitive · identity · consent · compliance · breach · non-disclosure · scrub · mask
Maximum security clearance level
- classifiedRestricted from disclosure
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- archivesStored historical documents
- memorandumFormal internal correspondence
agency · clearance · declassified · CIA · FBI · NSA · official · dossier
Restricted from disclosure
- declassifyRemove secrecy designation
- FOIAFederal transparency statute
- documentsFormal written records
- discoveryAct of finding something
deposition · subpoena · privilege · attorney-client · sealed · transcript · exhibit · filing
blackout
Complete power loss
- suppressForcibly put an end to
- expurgateRemove offensive material
- bowdlerizeRemove objectionable content
sanitize · obscure · mask · silence · withhold · restrict · censorship · blanked · removed · excised
delete
Remove or erase
erase · omit · excise · truncate · abridge · shorten · blue-pencil · mark-up · revision · draft
anonymize
Remove identifying information
- confidentialityQuality of protecting secrets
- PIIIdentity-revealing information
- HIPAAMedical privacy statute
GDPR · sensitive · identity · consent · compliance · breach · non-disclosure · scrub · mask
top-secret
Maximum security clearance level
- classifiedRestricted from disclosure
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- archivesStored historical documents
memorandum · agency · clearance · declassified · CIA · FBI · NSA · official · dossier · briefing
classified
Restricted from disclosure
- declassifyRemove secrecy designation
- FOIAFederal transparency statute
- documentsFormal written records
discovery · deposition · subpoena · privilege · attorney-client · sealed · transcript · exhibit · filing · disclosure
- deletiondelete, erase, erasure, cross out, strike out
- editorial actionsedit, revise, proofread, publish, review
- removalremove, elimination, delete, erasing, erase
- block outcover, hide, mask, screen, shroud
- privacy actionsencrypt, delete, hide, lock, mute
- concealmentconceal, hiding, concealing, concealed, hide
- redacted textConcealed sensitive information
- redaction criticismStudy of textual editing processes
redaction, redacted, redactor, redactions, redacting, redacts, redactors, unredacted