Privacy workflows

Refinement often happens right before publishing—but sometimes you’re refining content that includes private information. This page provides operational guidance to reduce risk.

What counts as sensitive?

  • Personal identifiers (names, emails, phone numbers, addresses)
  • Faces, license plates, badges, screens with private data
  • Medical, legal, financial documents
  • Proprietary business information (internal metrics, roadmap, contracts)

Privacy-first workflow

  1. Classify the content
    • Public, internal, confidential, or regulated.
  2. Minimize what you upload/process
    • Crop to the relevant region (especially for screenshots and documents).
    • Remove unnecessary tracks (e.g., remove unused audio channels).
  3. Redact before refining when possible
    • Blur faces/plates, mask fields, remove metadata if needed.
  4. Prefer the least-invasive operation
    • If you only need denoising, don’t run additional transformations.
  5. Review outputs
    • Ensure redactions remain effective after upscaling/sharpening.
  6. Control access
    • Restrict who can run refinement on sensitive assets.
    • Store outputs in approved locations only.

Media-specific considerations

Image/video

  • Upscaling and sharpening can make previously-hidden text readable. Re-check screenshots and reflections.
  • Background removal may reveal edges that expose hidden content—review carefully.

Audio

  • Voice isolation can make background speech clearer—ensure you’re not unintentionally amplifying private conversations.

Text

  • Refinement should not invent facts, but it can rephrase in ways that expose details more clearly. Remove secrets before refining.

Output expectations

  • Lower risk of accidental exposure
  • Repeatable SOP for teams handling sensitive content

Common pitfalls

  • Assuming redactions survive: always verify after enhancement.
  • Over-sharing: uploading full documents when you only need a paragraph.
  • Unclear retention practices: define where outputs can be saved/shared.

When not to use

  • You are under strict regulatory obligations and do not have an approved workflow/tooling path—get compliance review first.

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