aiREDACT -- Redacting Privacy Information from Public Documents

State governments have become concerned with identity theft, recognizing that public records frequently contain privacy information – social security numbers, bank account numbers, driver’s licenses to name a few. Florida has led the country with legislation requiring that privacy information available on internet-accessible records be redacted. Many other states have similar pending legislation.

aiREDACT, launched in 2005, provides a cost-effective solution to the regulatory requirements. The aiSTART technology provides a significant platform on which the aiREDACT product and work flow was developed.

Candidates for redaction are identified both by the content of the text to be redacted and by the context which often surrounds the privacy information. aiREDACT also touts a new redaction workbench managing a state-of-the-art triage methodology to address hard-to-find and handwritten redactable regions.

Over the past two years, aiREDACT has analyzed hundreds of millions of pages of unstructured backfile documents, identifying and blackening privacy information. Going-forward redaction is now integrated into the document processing workflow for several governmental entities. aiSTART technology provides the enabling disciplined starting point.