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June 01, 2023 | 3 minutes read

Join The CaseGuard Team at The 2023 NATIA Conference

Stop by booth 628 at the NATIA conference to learn about how CaseGuard Studio can benefit your team and help make the difficult job of solving crimes easier with its straightforward approach to redacting and enhancing videos, images, audio files, and documents.

May 31, 2023 | 5 minutes read

Using Redaction for Privacy Maintenance as An Investigator

These oaths emphasize upholding the law, serving the public, and protecting the rights of individuals. One of these many rights is privacy. An investigator must adhere to the legal and ethical guidelines within the jurisdiction and perform their investigation within those specifically set boundaries.

May 23, 2023 | 6 minutes read

Discover How AI Technology Is Changing Public Transportation

AI technology is responsible for automating many mundane tasks, such as having Siri send a text message, asking Alexa to add more paper towels to your Amazon shopping cart, or automatically redacting faces and license plates from police body cam footage. So why shouldn’t we use it to automate driving?

May 17, 2023 | 8 minutes read

Privacy Mistakes And Federal Regulations For Redaction

Redaction is a method of removing sensitive data from documents that protect individuals’ privacy or safety before the papers are made available for public viewing. While the US has not made a comprehensive privacy regulation that is all-encompassing such as the General Data Protection Regulation available to protect citizens, it does have several rules or laws that apply in specific contexts.

May 15, 2023 | 6 minutes read

The Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Emergency Amendment Act

An “Amendment Act” is what describes legislation that can alter existing laws instead of producing a new law from the ground up. The Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Emergency Amendment Act is a standalone emergency legislation passed by the D.C council in June of 2020 amending some existing laws relating to justice reform and policing.

May 08, 2023 | 7 minutes read

You Are Now PII Certified!

Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is any information that can be used to identify an individual and this information can be considered sensitive or non-sensitive. Information that is considered non-sensitive, for example, your phone number, will not directly identify you. Think of non-sensitive information as the type of information that will be in your public records.

May 01, 2023 | 7 minutes read

Why Reports are Important When Performing Redaction

If you have ever worked on redactions, you can easily understand the necessity of obtaining redaction software that has flexible and innate features. The “Print Repors” window in CaseGuard features the Exemption Log option which will summarize and condense the reasons you have redacted the faces, words, objects, or audio in your files. To take it a step further, this list generated by CaseGuard can easily be exported to a variety of file types, allowing you to share what is necessary.

April 24, 2023 | 5 minutes read

Barcodes, A Sick Wife, and Long Lines Made it Happen

Problems of Yesteryear Imagine receiving news that your spouse, who is away on a business trip, is very ill. To make matters worse, the way the news was delivered to you took days for you to receive it, and by the time you acknowledged the fact, your spouse had already passed away. This was Samuel […]

April 17, 2023 | 6 minutes read

ChatGPT, Is This The New Magic 8 Ball?

By now, you might be wondering how exactly it was trained in the first place and what exactly it is. Most people may answer that ChatGPT is a smart interactive virtual robot and that’s sort of correct. ChatGPT is a language processing tool that gives a human-like response to your questions or statements. It uses a language model which is a tool that is able to calculate the likelihood of sentences or order of words because it was trained using a large amount of text in a specific language.

April 12, 2023 | 8 minutes read

Why it is Important to Redact Emails Right

If you want to forward an email with sensitive information in it removed or redacted, you have several options on how to do so. One option being using a redaction software with capabilities of redacting PII, specifically from emails, already implemented. Most people are aware of redaction being used to maintain privacy, like blurring out faces or on physical documents as well, but not everyone will mention email redactions as another essential variable, understandably so.