I'm OK to say the doc was signed, but redactions was applied post signature. The parties that signed the document still have the copy of the original doc and can always refer to that should any dispute arise. Most folks want to use the redact feature to hide some sensitive information from downstream parties. This answer misses the point completely (even though it may be technically correct). I don't speak for or work for Adobe, in case you're going to say that I just try to "make excuses for their bugs".
The only way I could envision it working is if all the people who signed a file will validate that their signature still applies to the redacted version, but that's no different from simply signing it again. If that's how the legal system works, then it has a serious problem, in my opinion. What you're describing is not only technically not feasible (in a PDF file, at least), it's also very dangerous in terms of liability and reliability. Maybe they witnessed that the killing was in self-defense? This is a simplistic example, but it goes to show that once you allow information to be removed or edited in any way, the signature on it becomes worthless, as you don't know in what ways the original differs from the redacted version. Now, we can assume that those are just names of people, but maybe there's more there that we can no longer see. Imagine the following sentence: "I, XXXXXX, witnessed that John doe killed XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX." How would you know that only names were removed? Maybe crucial bits of other information were also removed when the file was redacted? It was removed from the file, and can't be put back. So how can we apply redaction marks after signature?īut text was altered. The signature needs to be still valid and act as a witness (log) that no pages were removed nor text altered. Then you might have supervisors making quality control of the redaction marks and only then the final marks are applied.Īll these steps will not alter information that is contained in the document, redaction only replaces information being disclosed but leaving the space that was occupied by that information. Then down the road, redaction marks are added by another team. The investigator scans the document or creates the PDF and applies its signature. The question is very important to answer. I don't think that Adobe can say it can work the other way around. The above-mentioned communities work this way around the world. As I said this is happening months or even years after the first initial scan of the original document was made. Thus the need to redact names of people who will not be accused. It is only months or even years after the investigation that the investigators will know with certainty who is going to be accused. The investigator does not know what to redact since the investigation it's still pending. The investigator scans and submits the documents in their original format. A real life situation across the entire world of legal AND law enforcement community.
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