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Blurring text for privacy
I'm building courses for the staff at a college and it is sometimes necessary to display personal information on students in screenshots. Is there a way to blur this information to keep it private?...
For software simulations, due to PHI/PII in medical data, I've had the best success with mocking up entire screens using Illustrator and then importing the images for the background. It's time consuming but the advantage is that I can then create customize interactions and feedback that more closely mimics the software.
I agree, and, quite frankly, find it extremely disturbing that there would be developers working on a live production system, accessing actual patients' (or other users') sensitive data, and expecting a blur tool to completely obfuscate said PII data.
If we upload anything to the LMS that has PHI/PII then an HR action will be taken. It hasn't happened to anyone on our team yet. It's an added incentive to making sure that our material is secure.
