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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.

April 04, 2023 | 8 minutes read

How Important Is Your Privacy to You?

If your information is ever being shared, ask what redaction method was used. Did they redact manually by hand or with software? Do they utilize a redaction software that prioritizes redaction and uses AI features like CaseGuard Studio, or did they use software that only has redaction as a secondary feature, like Adobe? These are important questions because they can reveal the quality of the redaction used to protect you. Your safety and privacy are essential, don’t be afraid to take action to secure them.

March 27, 2023 | 7 minutes read

How bad is GoodRx for your privacy?

With the high prices of prescriptions, lack of understanding of the healthcare system, and media outlets seeming to repeatedly remind you that you’re kind of on your own, it’s no shocker that most individuals are going to willingly do their own research to find a solution. Big-name companies know this, and some are willing to go as far as bending and redefining the law to take advantage.

March 20, 2023 | 4 minutes read

What is the National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA?

National Defense Authorization Act is a law that’s passed every year by the United States government to set policies and budgets for the Department of Defense to ensure that the military has the resources it needs.