Photo and Video Anonymization - Glossary
This glossary of terms covers privacy and compliance in visual materials. It includes terms related to GDPR compliance and other important data protection regulations, as well as a discussion of technical issues related to computer vision, a technology used to automatically blur faces and license plates in datasets, video recordings, and photo collections.
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Access Control List (ACL)
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AI-Powered Video Redaction
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ALPR / ANPR
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Anomaly Detection
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Artificial Intelligence in Anonymization
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Artificial Intelligence in Data Security
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Balancing false positives and false negatives
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Batch Video Processing
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Biometric Data Breach
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Biometric Systems Under the EU AI Act
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Body camera redaction
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Bounding boxes
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Burned-in redaction
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CCTV Footage Redaction
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CCTV in Healthcare Facilities and GDPR
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CCTV Sign
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Chain of Custody for Video Evidence
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Cloud-based software
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Confidence Threshold
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Cookie management
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Dashcam Footage Redaction
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Data encryption
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Data Leakage Prevention
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Data Lifecycle Management (DLM)
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Data Masking
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Data Pseudonymization
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Data Remanence
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Data security
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Data Sovereignty
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Data Subject Rights Management
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Deblurring Attack
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Deep Learning
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De-identification
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Differential Privacy
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Drone Footage Anonymization
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DSAR for Video Footage
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Edge AI
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Edge Processing
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Face anonymization
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Face blurring
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Face detection
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Face detection in low-light
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Face masking
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Face swapping
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Face template / faceprint
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Federated Learning
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Frame rate (FPS)
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Image in a Recording Become Special Category Data
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Image processing
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Image Segmentation
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Immutable Storage
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Incident Response
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Inference Attack
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Keyframe Detection
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L-Diversity
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Legal Basis for Processing Personal Images
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License plate anonymization
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Machine Learning (ML)
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Masking and blurring
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Mask interpolation
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Metadata masking
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Metadata Scrubbing
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Model Drift
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Multi-Object Tracking (MOT)
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Mutual TLS (mTLS)
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Object tracking
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Occlusion handling
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On-Premise Deployments
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On-Premise Processing
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On-premise software
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Parking Lot CCTV and GDPR
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PII Masking (Personally Identifiable Information)
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Pixelation
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Plate blurring
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Privacy Budget
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Privacy by Default
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Privacy by Design
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Privacy mask
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Privacy protection
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Privileged Access Management
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Processing Latency
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Real-Time Object Detection
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Recording Export Under GDPR
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Redaction Audit Trail
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Redaction quality assurance
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Re-identification
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Retention Schedule
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Sanitization
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School CCTV and GDPR
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Secure Deletion
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Secure Multi-Party Computation
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Security incident
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Small object detection
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Smart City Video Privacy
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Speaker Diarization
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Street View Privacy
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System Integration
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User consent
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Video codec
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Video Data Breach Notification (Article 33 GDPR)
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Video Data Minimisation
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Video Frame Sampling
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Video processing
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Video Redaction API
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Video Watermarking
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Visual Obfuscation
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Visual Privacy Zones
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Voice Activity Detection (VAD)
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Voice anonymization
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Voice Biometrics
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Watermarking Detection
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Zeroization
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