Redaction Limited to What Is Withheld
Each redaction covers only the information withheld, and not the surrounding text, page, or record that contains it.
Intent
Removing a whole paragraph to hide one name takes the person's own data with it. They lose data they are entitled to, to protect someone else's.
How to test it
An assessor scores the criterion against a single response:
- Score 2
- Each redaction covers the withheld information and nothing around it.
- Score 1
- Some redactions are close-fitting and others remove whole sentences or paragraphs to withhold part of them.
- Score 0
- Redactions cover whole paragraphs, pages, or records to withhold something within them.
- Not applicable
- The organisation redacted nothing from the copy.
The law it reflects
This criterion reflects Article 15(4) of the UK GDPR. That mapping is a guide, not a legal test: conformance is judged against the criterion, not the article.
See H5 in context in the full standard.