Acuity AutoRedact

Acuity AutoRedact is a redaction platform for identifying and obscuring personal and sensitive information in documents, images, and video or CCTV footage. The platform supports redaction workflows for organizations that need to review and prepare material for disclosure or sharing.

• Document Redaction: Processes documents, scanned files, Office files, PDFs, and email archives to identify information requiring redaction.
• Video and CCTV Redaction: Supports redaction workflows for video and CCTV media.
• Sensitive-Data Detection: Identifies personally identifiable information (PII), special-category data, facial imagery, and other sensitive identifiers.
• Review and Approval: Provides tools for reviewing and approving redacted outputs.
• Downloadable Outputs: Produces redacted files for download after processing.
• Administrative Controls: Includes usage dashboards and administrative controls, depending on the subscription plan.
• Data Processing: The vendor states that uploaded documents and video are processed in the UK and EU and that source files and outputs are automatically deleted within 24 hours.
• AI-Assisted Processing: Uses automated and AI-assisted detection to identify content that may require redaction; human review remains necessary before disclosure.

Audience & Use Cases

• Audience: Privacy teams, information-governance teams, legal teams, public-sector organizations, schools, and organizations processing sensitive documents or video.
• Use Case: Preparing records, documents, images, and CCTV footage for sharing while reducing the exposure of personal or confidential information.

• Supported media: Documents, images, video, CCTV footage, scanned files, and email archives
• Processing approach: Automated and AI-assisted identification and redaction
• Vendor-stated retention: Automatic deletion of uploaded media and generated outputs within 24 hours
• Review requirement: The vendor requires customers to review outputs before disclosure or use