Industry Uses for Redaction

Industry Uses

Information Governance
Redact-It can help any organization with its information governance strategy by helping control who can see sensitive data, regardless of how many documents are involved, what type of data those documents contain (structured or unstructured) and how the data is used (active vs. archived). Redact-It can be used ad hoc by trusted content owners, applied to large volumes of existing active data or intelligently applied through standard business rules as part of an automated business process.

Redact-It can be as simple or sophisticated as you need. For example, when integrated into a larger content or records management system, Redact-It can offer role-based redaction, allowing individual users access to the data they are permitted to see while redacting the information they shouldn't. This helps ensure compliance with data access and privacy rules without slowing information workers down.

Regulatory Compliance
Employing reliable redaction like Redact-It helps government agencies and organizations meet federal and local regulations around privacy and disclosure. Here are just a few examples of regulations that Redact-It helps address:

Freedom of Information (FOI) acts, which ensure that government agencies make information publically available. Almost every country has an FOI regulation designed to ensure openness in government.
Privacy acts, which require that when a government agency responds to FOI requests, and personally identifiable information be protected. Most countries have privacy protection laws.
U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act(HIPAA), which includes requirements to protect privacy information when health information is shared with outside parties.
U.S. Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) which requires credit card numbers or any kind of customer account data to be protected when sharing with outside organizations.
Canada Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) which requires organization to protect personal information in any documents shared with outside parties.
U.S. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which requires financial institutions and insurance companies to protect consumers’ personal financial information, such as data needed for credit counseling, transferring funds or real estate settlement.
U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which regulates publically held companies and their accounting firms and auditors. Because documents filed with the SEC are public, redacting proprietary information not relevant to the financial data is important.
European Union (EU) Privacy Protection Directive, which is similar to the U.S. Privacy Act but applies to private organizations as well as government bodies.

State and Local Government - Health Services, Law Enforcement, Public Records
Many types of public records require redaction, including tax liens, property deeds, death/birth certificates and marriage certificates. Any agency that frequently responds to FOI requests, including police departments, state health departments and courts can all gain efficiency and accuracy by using Redact-It.

eDiscovery
Paying paralegals overtime to redaction privileged and privacy information in the production set? Redact-It can automate much of this tedious process, saving significant time and expense for you and your client. Redact-It has many features designed specifically for legal, including the ability to redact everything between brackets, the ability to add Bates and page numbers, and the ability to create redaction scripts that can be globally applied to all documents.

Healthcare
The healthcare industry has unique redaction requirements to comply with HIPAA while still facilitating the necessary flow of information for patient care, research and payment. From hospitals to insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies to university research facilities, redaction of privacy information is a necessary element of common business processes. Redact-It can eliminate the pain of data protection and compliance by making redaction a seamless part of business workflows.

Education
Schools need to exchange information about individual students across different departments, like admissions, housing and student services, as well as with outside organizations like financial institutions providing student loans. Many of these documents include credit card numbers, account numbers and ID numbers (including Social Security numbers) that don't need to be seen by all recipients. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act also requires certain information to be protected when distributing documents outside the school. Redact-It is ideal for K-12 and higher education.