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How to Redact Email Attachments: Documents, Images, Audio, Video

The body of an email is often the least sensitive part of the message it belongs to. A two-line cover note can carry a scanned letter, a spreadsheet ...

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Email Redaction Across a Mailbox: Bodies, Threads and Attachments

A public body asked my team for email redaction because its officers were answering Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and public records requests by ...

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Multilingual Document Redaction: Arabic, Right-to-Left and Mixed-Script PDFs

What does a redaction tool do with a witness statement written in Arabic, or a benefits letter in Urdu, when the models it runs were built and tested ...

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How to Sanitize a PDF: The Hidden Places PII Survives After Redaction

A litigation team can check every page of a redacted production with copy and paste, find nothing under the bars, and still send the redacted words ...

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Which DICOM Tags Contain PHI, and What to Replace Them With

If your imaging core de-identifies studies with its own script, the heart of that script is a list of DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in ...

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Burned-In Text in DICOM: Ultrasound and Secondary Captures

A clean header does not help when a reviewer opens a de-identified ultrasound study and finds the patient's name and date of birth printed across the ...

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PII Redaction in Call Transcripts: Redacting the Text Along with the Audio

A redacted call can play back with every card number silenced while its caption track, sitting beside the audio in the same player, still spells the ...

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Audio PII Redaction: Finding Spoken Card Numbers and Names in a Call

A compliance lead evaluating audio PII redaction tends to ask one question before any other: which parts of a card payment will the tool actually ...

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Frame-by-Frame Redaction: Filling the Gaps Between Analyzed Frames

An analyst who has keyframed a face by hand through a two-minute clip knows that frame-by-frame redaction seldom means drawing a box on every frame. ...

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How to Redact Signatures, Forms and Stamps in a PDF

Signatures are personal information in some releases and routine in others, and the rule that decides which usually comes from records law or a court ...

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Handwritten, Rotated and Skewed Scans: What OCR Misses Before Redaction

The name most likely to survive an automated redaction of a typed intake form is the one somebody wrote in the margin by hand. OCR built for printed ...

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How to Redact DICOM Pixel Data Without Breaking the Image

A computed tomography (CT) slice stored as DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) can come back from de-identification looking ...

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DICOM De-identification: Tags, Burned-In Text and the Pixels In Between

My team built DICOM de-identification into VIDIZMO Redactor because the organizations asking us for it kept running into the same gap. Clinical ...

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Call Recording Redaction at Scale: What Actually Breaks and How to Handle It

I led our call recording redaction deployment at a county social services contact center, where about 7,000 calls come in on an average working day, ...