Digital Evidence

Digital evidence can be transmitted in digital form to assist with a court case during a trial. Digital evidence can cover information about how to protect your identity, how to protect against re-identification, how surveillance affects people, the effects of body-worn cameras, privacy protection, and the importance of data privacy to people.

August 28, 2024 | 3 minutes read

Come See the Best Redaction Solution at WLLE

Good News! CaseGuard will be in Anaheim for the Women Leaders in Law Enforcement conference from September 3rd to September 6th. If you’ll be there, we would love to see you so we can tell you all about the features that we offer that can make your workload easier.

August 02, 2023 | 3 minutes read

Join The CaseGuard Team at IAI’s International Forensic Educational Conference

Meet our team at the Annual IAI International Forensic Educational Conference in Maryland this August from August 21st to 23rd.

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 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.

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.

May 08, 2021 | 4 minutes read

How Can Legal Professionals Implement Email Redaction?

Email redaction is defined as the censoring of personally identifiable information from email communications. There are many contexts in which an email may need to be redacted before being release for public consumption.

March 11, 2021 | 7 minutes read

What is a Chain of Custody? How Can Businesses Use It?

By definition, the chain of custody is the historical sequential paper trail that records the “when, why, how, and by whom” physical or electronic evidence is collected, handled, or analyzed. Under federal law, any item with a break in its chain of custody or is improperly documented is not admitted or shown to juries.

February 03, 2021 | 6 minutes read

How to Reduce Your Digital Trail, New Techniques

Metadata is much like breadcrumbs leaving a trail straight to your identity, as it attaches tags to define and categorize new information.

January 19, 2021 | 7 minutes read

Can Metadata Be Used To Predict Your Personality?

Metadata is descriptive information used to identify or categorize data, much like a book cover provides details about the contents. In digital assets, metadata helps describe and organize information for easier identification and categorization.

December 30, 2020 | 7 minutes read

Protecting Against Re-Identification, New Techniques

One method many companies use to store data with less risk is by using data anonymization. Data anonymization is similar to redaction. It is a type of data sanitization. With the intent of privacy protection, it is a term used to remove PII from stored data. This is done so that the individuals’ data is now ‘anonymous.’

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