Centre County PA Recorder Completes Privacy Protection Project

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ORLANDO, Fla. (March, 2010) – Computing System Innovations (CSI), America’s leading provider of intelligent redaction solutions, is pleased to announce that the Recorder of Deeds office in Centre County Pennsylvania has successfully completed its land records privacy protection project. The Recorders office records, protects, preserves, and reproduces legal documents related to real estate transactions for Centre County’s 150,000 residents. The Recorders office completed their privacy protection project using CSI Intellidact® intelligent redaction technology to process its three million land record images at CSI’s secure data center.

The Intellidact solution’s sophisticated intelligence properly classifies documents and identifies fields containing sensitive information. Four advanced character-recognition engines (i.e., machine, handprint, MICR, and cursive script) locate and vote on data eligible for automatic redaction and/or indexing. Intellidact does not alter the original document. Instead, Intellidact creates a redacted version of the original document, which can be saved into an image repository or delivered to an e-recording or e-filing system. Intellidact provides high volume, high speed, high accuracy unstructured data recognition technology to rapidly locate and reliably redact confidential information within any PDF, TIFF, Microsoft Office, JPEG or GIF image file, decreasing the amount of time needed to comply with information privacy legislation.

“We are honored to have been selected by the Recorder to assist with this important privacy protection project,” said Henry Sal, President of CSI. “We look forward to working with Centre County as additional needs to protect information are recognized.”

Joe Davidson, Centre County Recorder of Deeds, states “There is evidence to suggest that some criminals from around America and other countries are turning to public records to obtain private information that is available on line. Social Security numbers are the primary tool for stealing someone’s identity. These numbers are used to unlock bank accounts and credit cards. We are fortunate at Centre County we had the resources to be able to partner with CSI, one of the most experienced vendors and a leader in the document redaction business, to help us reduce this threat for Centre County property owners”. Joe Davidson also went on to say “The current PA Open Records Law doesn’t require the Recorder of Deeds to redact sensitive information from public records on line, but if the resources are available it’s the responsible thing to do. As an elected official I feel protecting our residents identity should be one of the priorities of this office.”

CSI recognized the alarmingly increasing problem of Identity Theft crimes in the early 2000s. In response, CSI created Intellidact and processed America’s first successful automated redaction project in 2004. Intellidact continues to lead the industry, providing the most cost-effective, high volume, high accuracy redaction solution with the least amount of manual verification required.

CSI has proven experience in rapid, accurate redaction processing and validation of large quantities of documents for Local and State Government Agencies. Intellidact has been selected for use in enterprise-scale redaction projects across the United States. Using Intellidact, CSI has redacted more than 1.75 Billion images for over 200 customers in 18 states.

About Computing System Innovations

Computing System Innovations (CSI) is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Central Florida, and maintains research and development facilities in Austin, Texas and Irvine, California. In business for 20 plus years, CSI is a proven and well-balanced software company, delivering solutions to corporate enterprises and government institutions. Customers range from Fortune 500 companies to state and local governments. CSI’s commercial applications division is the leading provider of automated redaction, and auto docketing/indexing technology in the United States. CSI technology empowers public and private entities to deal with both privacy of data and increases in document volume issues as part of normal document processing workflow. If you would like more information about CSI’s Identity Theft protection technology, please visit www.csisoft.com or www.intellidact.com.

Jeff Miller
Computing System Innovations
(407) 598-1826
jmiller@csisoft.com
www.csisoft.com