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Redaction and Compliance Regulations

Redaction is a legal obligation before it is a software problem. This section covers what each regime requires, per media type, and what a defensible response looks like.

Disclosure Regimes

Where the obligation is to release, with specific things withheld.

  • US FOIA — exemptions 1 through 9, statutory deadlines, and the requirement that a withholding be justified
  • UK FOIA — the UK regime, its exemptions and the public interest test
  • GDPR and DSAR — the 30-day clock, and the problem of releasing footage that contains people other than the requester
  • UK GDPR — where it diverges from the EU regime

Sector Regimes

  • HIPAA — the enumerated identifiers, and where they hide in clinical narrative and imaging
  • CJIS — criminal justice information, and why the agency holds the obligation
  • FERPA — student records, and campus footage containing minors
  • COPPA — children's data
  • GLBA — financial institutions and customer information
  • PCI DSS — cardholder data in recorded calls

Biometric and AI

  • BIPA — Illinois biometric information, and why faces in footage are a category of their own
  • EU AI Act — obligations attaching to AI systems that process personal data

US State Privacy Acts

A patchwork that now spans most of the country, each with its own definitions and its own deadline.

California (CCPA/CPRA) · Virginia (VCDPA) · Colorado (CPA) · Connecticut (CTDPA) · Florida (FDBR) · Texas (TDPSA) · Oregon · Montana · Delaware · Rhode Island (RIDPA) · Maryland (MODPA) · New Hampshire (NHDPA) · New Jersey · Nebraska (NDPA) · Iowa · Indiana (ICDPA) · Tennessee · Utah

Measuring a Release Against the Rule

Requirements are one thing; evidence that you met them is another.

When a detection job runs against a framework, the dashboard reports how much of that framework's detection set was actually redacted. Twelve frameworks ship with their own class sets: HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, FERPA, CCPA and CPRA, GLBA, CJIS, SOX, COPPA, FRCP, US FOIA and UK FOIA. Custom sets are definable.

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