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What It Is

Facit Data Systems’ Identity Cloak is a video redaction tool designed primarily to obscure personal information before CCTV footage, bodycam video, dashcam footage, or mobile phone video is shared or reviewed. It is aimed at compliance scenarios such as GDPR and SARs, with case studies across education, healthcare, hospitality, local government, logistics, retail, and transportation.

Core Capabilities

Based on the information collected, Identity Cloak’s AI capabilities focus on computer vision detection and tracking: it can automatically detect and track people and vehicles, and automatically blur faces, bodies, and license plates. It also supports full-screen blur, customizable blur shapes and sizes, video trimming, and editing of personal data in audio tracks. It can also process visual information such as ID documents, posters, and credit cards. The product is available as a standalone desktop version and as a Milestone plugin, with support for real-time redaction in Milestone and user permission management. The Enterprise version can also be deployed in an air-gapped environment.

Pricing and Trial

The product offers four tiers: Starter, Standard, Pro, and Enterprise. Subscriptions are billed annually on a monthly basis, but the scraped pages did not show specific prices. Starter is intended for low-volume teams and supports up to 10 videos/year; Standard supports up to 35 videos/year; Pro is aimed at higher-volume small teams and supports up to 75 videos/year, with some pages indicating unlimited videos/minutes; Enterprise is a custom plan with support for unlimited videos, isolated deployment, and device licensing. The official site offers a 7-day free trial with access to all features, but exports are limited to a maximum of 1 minute and include a watermark. Healthcare and education organizations can apply for discounts.

Pros and Cons

The main advantage is its strong focus: it provides a fairly complete set of automated detection, tracking, blurring, and access-control features around video privacy compliance. It supports multiple video sources and videos of any length, and includes customer feedback from sectors such as healthcare, transportation, and education. Limitations include the lack of disclosed pricing, AI accuracy data, false-positive/false-negative metrics, and an open API. There is also no clear indication of a Chinese interface or Chinese-language support, and complex scenes may still require manual review.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Identity Cloak is best suited to data protection or video management teams at hospitals, schools, transportation operators, government departments, security teams, and retail companies, especially organizations already using the Milestone ecosystem. Access and payment availability from mainland China are unknown. If procurement of overseas software is restricted, buyers may also want to evaluate BriefCam, Veritone Redact, Milestone ecosystem solutions, or video structuring and redaction tools from domestic security vendors in China.