Straightforward and reliable redaction for sensitive CCTV
Data Protection Education
Data Protection Education is an organisation that provides specialist help for schools to comply with data protection laws, educate staff about data legislation, and manage data lawfully and safely.
The Need
There is a growing use of CCTV across all of the education sector.
Since most schools are not necessarily set up for, nor fully understand, the legal requirements for CCTV redaction prior to disclosure; Data Protection Education’s work and the Secure Redact service were a necessary match.
Data Protection Education completes subject access requests (SARs) and freedom of information requests (FOIRs), on behalf of schools across the UK.
They needed a simple automated service that they could use regularly, and that allowed them to redact sensitive children’s data from CCTV quickly, with easy-to-use editing tools.
The Solution
James England, Director of Data Protection Education, had used other redaction services previously, but he found that they required more manual redaction and ‘the value for money wasn’t there’.
After finding Secure Redact online, he was able to quickly sign up with us and upload a video to begin redacting in minutes.
He was pleasantly surprised at the high level of accuracy that the automated redaction provided.
Thanks to ‘excellent support guides’ and easy-to-use tools, no training on the system was required allowing him and his team to respond in a fraction of the time.
The Response
“Straightforward and reliable compared to other redaction services…
