Video Redaction Best Practices: Motion, Frame Rates, Tracking and Failing Safe

I led our video redaction project for a county public safety agency where two people handled every disclosure, and video was taking them an average ...

September 30, 2026

Redacting Dash Cam, Body Cam and Drone Footage From a Moving Camera

A fleet claims manager preparing crash footage for an insurer and defense counsel is doing a different job from a records clerk redacting a fixed ...

September 30, 2026

Why Frame-Rate Headers Lie: Redacting Variable Frame Rate Video

A video file keeps time frame by frame, and the frames-per-second figure a player displays is a summary of that timing, stored apart from the frames ...

September 30, 2026

Redacting 360-Degree Video and Images: Distortion, Seams and Playback

Open a 360-degree photo in an ordinary image viewer and it looks like a warped panorama, with the ceiling smeared along the top edge and the floor ...

September 30, 2026

Microsoft 365 Email Redaction Straight From the Outlook Mailbox

The request usually reaches a Microsoft 365 administrator as a short ticket asking for a redaction tool to be connected to the mailboxes of the ...

September 30, 2026

How to Redact a Word Document or Spreadsheet: What You Gain and Lose by Converting to PDF

The instruction to "just black it out in Word" usually arrives with a deadline attached, from someone who has a records request or a production going ...

September 30, 2026

How to Redact a Scanned PDF: Removing the Pixels Instead of Covering Them

Extract the page images from a scanned PDF that someone redacted by drawing black boxes, and the names under the boxes come back while the page on ...

September 30, 2026

How to Properly Redact a PDF: What Black Boxes Miss and How to Remove Content for Real

Our first redaction customer at VIDIZMO was a county, in 2022, and most of what it needed redacted was video and audio. That project taught my team ...

September 30, 2026

DICOM Private Tags and Nested Sequences: Where PHI Hides

A DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) header looks like a flat list of fields in a viewer's header panel, yet two parts of it ...

September 30, 2026

De-identifying Multi-Frame DICOM Files, Series and Studies

A single magnetic resonance (MR) visit can reach a trial's central reader as one enhanced file holding hundreds of frames, or as hundreds of ...

September 30, 2026

Redacting Stereo Call Recordings: Two Channels, One Clean Result

A QA analyst who puts on headphones to check a redacted call can hear the customer's card number silenced on one side and the agent reading it back, ...

September 30, 2026

Bulk Call Recording Redaction: Planning for Thousands of Calls a Day

Four questions decide whether a bulk call recording redaction plan survives its first busy week. They ask how many hours of audio the pipeline must ...

September 30, 2026

Audio Redaction and Chain of Custody: Changing Only the Bytes That Carry the PII

When a redacted call recording is challenged, whoever defends it is usually asked to show two things at once. The sensitive words must be gone, and ...

September 30, 2026

Amazon Connect Call Recordings in S3: Ingesting Audio and Metadata Together

Amazon Connect does not write a call to S3 in one piece, which is the first thing anyone connecting a recording bucket to a redaction pipeline ...

September 30, 2026

Tracking Through Occlusion, Crowds and Scene Cuts in Video Redaction

Every tracked mask in a redacted video rests on a promise that the person under it on the ten-thousandth frame is the same person who was under it on ...

September 30, 2026

Blur vs Pixelate vs Solid Fill, and Why Redacted Video Must Fail Safe

Choosing between blur and pixelation looks like a question of house style until someone asks whether the face under the mask could be recovered, and ...

September 30, 2026

PII in Emails: Bodies, Signatures and Quoted Replies

Ask where the personal information in an email sits and most people point to the body, where someone typed an account number, a diagnosis or a home ...

September 30, 2026

Human-in-the-Loop Approval Before Anything Leaves the Mailbox

Once software reads a mailbox on an organization's behalf, it is a short step to software that also moves, labels, deletes, replies, forwards and ...

September 30, 2026

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