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News and guidance on video redaction, GDPR/CCPA compliance, and Subject Access Requests from the Pixelate team.

Side-by-side comparison of an operator redacting shopping centre CCTV footage manually versus with AI assistance, showing 5+ hours per hour of footage manually against 30-60 minutes with AI assistance

24 August 2026

Manual vs AI Video Redaction: Which Is Better in 2026?

Manual video redaction is slow, costly and error-prone. See how AI-assisted redaction — with a human operator still reviewing every result — helps organisations respond to CCTV Subject Access Requests faster, and where a managed redaction service fits in.

The Pixelate dashboard showing a full list of automatically generated detection masks alongside CCTV footage of an escalator

16 August 2026

Pixelate Online: Automated Redaction Software with Inverse Redaction

A walkthrough of Pixelate’s automated redaction software: auto-detect masking, manual keyframe masking, and the new ‘inverse redaction’ feature for fast, GDPR/CCPA compliant video redaction online.

AI face-detection software identifying and tracking people with bounding boxes in CCTV footage of a public space

7 August 2026

How CCTV Face Blurring Software Delivers Regulatory Compliance for Video Footage

Why organisations need face blurring software for CCTV, where GDPR applies, what the fines look like, and how Pixelate helps you respond to Subject Access Requests without exposing third parties.

29 April 2021

Ocucon Launches Pixelate Video Redaction Software in the US

Ocucon brings Pixelate to the US market, hosted on IBM Cloud, as rising Data Subject Request volumes under CCPA, HIPAA and FERPA drive demand for automated video redaction.