Automatic face & plate redaction, powered by AI
Engineer M8 AI Redaction automatically obscures faces and number plates in your CCTV footage — making Subject Access Requests and evidence sharing GDPR-compliant in seconds, not hours.
From raw footage to GDPR-ready evidence
Our Vision AI pipeline processes your footage frame by frame, detecting and obscuring personal data automatically — no manual editing required.
Footage Submitted
Select a clip from the Surveillance Guardian vault, or upload footage directly. Supports all major CCTV formats.
AI Scans Every Frame
YOLOv8 object detection locates every face and number plate across the full clip — even in low light or partial occlusion.
Automatic Obscuration
Detected regions are blurred or pixelated with configurable intensity. You can review and manually adjust any region before export.
Export & Audit Log
Download the redacted clip. A full audit log records who requested it, what was redacted, and when — ready for your GDPR records.
What AI Redaction handles for you
Purpose-built for fire and security engineers dealing with Subject Access Requests, insurance evidence, and police disclosure.
Face Detection & Blurring
Detects all visible faces in footage — frontal, profile, partial — and applies configurable Gaussian blur or pixelation automatically.
Number Plate Redaction
OCR-powered plate detection finds and obscures vehicle registration plates, even at oblique angles or in motion.
Manual Region Editor
Draw custom redaction zones over any area of the frame — useful for screens, documents, or any sensitive content the AI flags for review.
GDPR Audit Trail
Every redaction request is logged with requesting user, timestamp, clip details, and redaction method — fully exportable for compliance records.
Batch Processing
Submit multiple clips simultaneously. Our pipeline processes them in parallel — no waiting around for a single clip to finish before starting the next.
On-Premises Processing
Footage is processed on your own server infrastructure — raw video never leaves your network. Redacted exports only where you choose to send them.
Built with data protection by design
CCTV footage is personal data under UK GDPR. AI Redaction makes complying with Subject Access Requests and third-party disclosure legally defensible and operationally simple.
Subject Access Request Ready
When individuals request their footage, redact all third parties and export in minutes — meeting the 30-day SAR deadline with ease.
Police & Insurance Disclosure
Share evidence clips with third parties while protecting uninvolved individuals' privacy — legally required before disclosure in most cases.
Defensible Processing Records
Every redaction logged with full operator audit trail — demonstrates your lawful basis for processing in the event of an ICO investigation.
No Raw Data Leaves Your Network
Processing runs entirely on your own infrastructure. Only the final redacted export goes where you send it.
Stop spending hours manually redacting footage
Let AI handle the heavy lifting. Book a demo and see how Redaction processes your existing CCTV footage in minutes.