Check text before sharing it publicly
Before public sharing, check personal data, confidential information, links, file names, visible metadata and contextual clues that may reveal more than intended.
Public sharing changes the risk: content can be copied, indexed, archived and combined with information readers already know.
Review personal and confidential data, links, file names and indirect clues before publication.
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Review with the real audience in mind
Ask who can see the text and what background information that audience may already have. Compare the result with the original before reusing it. Check names, numbers and technical strings separately. If the content contains names, numbers or technical strings, check those separately before keeping the resulting version.
Look for personal and confidential data
Check contact details, identifiers, names, client information and indirect identifiers, not only patterns an automated tool can recognise. Check names, numbers and technical strings separately. If the content contains names, numbers or technical strings, check those separately before keeping the resulting version.
Open links and referenced resources
A linked document may expose information that the main text no longer contains. Compare the result with the original before reusing it. Check names, numbers and technical strings separately. If the content contains names, numbers or technical strings, check those separately before keeping the resulting version.
Inspect everything around the main body
Titles, captions, author fields, comments and file names can reveal data outside the text itself. Compare the result with the original before reusing it. Check names, numbers and technical strings separately. If the content contains names, numbers or technical strings, check those separately before keeping the resulting version.
Read again after redaction
Removing a value may still leave enough context to infer it. Review the final version as a new reader would. Compare the result with the original before reusing it. Keep the original nearby whenever the change could alter how a passage is read or how several elements relate to one another.
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