Redact 956 Heads Across 3 Videos in Less Than 2 Business Days
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The rising use of surveillance technology at US federal facilities has been placed at the center of many court proceedings, with video gathered by these operations serving as critical evidence at adjudication hearings.
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The Challenge
Legal authorities at the federal facility were required to submit to a court three video evidence files, each three to six minutes in length. The facility was given just one week to provide the videos.
Because these videos were captured at the facility using surveillance and body-worn cameras, the footage included images of hundreds of individuals not involved in the case, such as detainees and federal officers. This required extensive video editing to redact PII appearing in each frame of the video.
Lacking the internal resources and technological capabilities required to complete this task, the facility’s legal team became concerned that they wouldn’t be able to meet the court’s deadline. The team contacted its third-party legal counsel to see if the firm could redact the video quickly.
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CASE STUDY:
The rising use of surveillance technology at US federal facilities has been placed at the center of many court proceedings, with video gathered by these operations serving as critical evidence at adjudication hearings. However, to prepare such evidence for submission to the court, these facilities must redact personally identifiable information (PII), such as video images of individuals uninvolved in the case.
1 Week to Redact Hundreds of Individuals
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The Challenge
Reaches approximately 650,000 listeners weekly
Part of Bonneville International, which operates radio and TV stations in six Western U.S. markets
The firm quoted a price of $72,000 and said it would take more than a week for its vendor to manually review and edit the videos—far too expensive and slow to meet the team’s deadline and budget constraints.
"Trustpoint.One not only beat our law firm’s vendor’s cost by 30 percent, but also turned the redaction project around in just two days thanks to Veritone Redact,” said the federal facility’s corporate counsel. “This is exactly what you want from your preferred vendor"
PII redaction can be challenging, with manual reviewing and editing processes incurring major expenditures of time, money and manpower. Moreover, these federal facilities are frequently under extremely tight time constraints, as they strive to meet demanding court deadlines to deliver redacted evidence.
Leveraging Veritone’s AI-enabled Redact software, Trustpoint.One is offering video evidence redaction services that dramatically slash the cost, effort and time required to edit PII.
Instead, the facility’s legal team turned to Trustpoint.One and Veritone. Trustpoint.One initiated the redaction project by exporting the three evidence videos from Relativity, the e-Discovery platform used by the federal center. The company then ingested the three evidence videos into the cloud-based Veritone Redact application.
Once the media files were ingested, Trustpoint.One simply opened up each of the evidence videos in Veritone Redact. After Veritone Redact identified hundreds of heads in each of
Veritone Redact Automates the Process
the evidence videos, an employee at Trustpoint.One confirmed each automated selection and determined which should be redacted—all with just a few mouse clicks. During this review process, Trustpoint.One further automated its workflow by capitalizing on a Veritone Redact capability that tracks user-defined objects such as notebooks, computer screens and more throughout the video evidence, expediting a once-manual process.
When the process was completed, Trustpoint.One was able to upload the first-round draft of the three redacted videos back into the federal center’s Relativity platform. The three videos required the redaction of a total of 956 heads. Despite the large number of redactions, Trustpoint.One was able to deliver the completed videos just over one business day after the detention center’s initial request, at a dramatically lower cost than would be charged by the facility’s legal partner’s vendor.
When the process was completed, Trustpoint.One was able to upload the first-round draft of the three redacted videos back into the federal center’s Relativity platform. The three videos required the redaction of a total of 956 heads. Despite the large number of redactions, Trustpoint.One was able to deliver the completed videos just over one business day after the detention center’s initial request, at a dramatically lower cost than would be charged by the facility’s legal partner’s vendor.
THE RESULTS
To meet this challenge, artificial intelligence and solution provider Veritone has joined forces with business and legal service solutions firm Trustpoint.One.
The Challenge
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