May 06, 2020 Feature
The Consequences of Documents That Are Incorrectly [Redacted]
Mistakes can lead to potentially significant consequences for both lawyers and their clients.
Andrea L. D’Ambra and Susana Medeiros
Last year, lawyers for former Trump advisor Paul Manafort inadvertently published information about their client’s meetings with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Ukrainian man the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes may be a member of a Russian intelligence agency unit connected with the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s email server. They meant to redact these passages, but they didn’t do so properly before filing. A tech-savvy reporter from the Guardian caught the error, and the lawyers and their client made the news. In another case, this one between Facebook and a bikini-photo app called Six4Three, the Wall Street Journal caught defective redactions that revealed that Facebook had at one time considered selling access to users’ data for as much as $250,000 per company.
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