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PII & Sanitization

If you upload an un-redacted screen recording containing customer financial data to an offshore support portal, you have created a compliance incident.

The Inspect Element Method (Recommended)

Drawing black boxes over screenshots is tedious and impossible to do cleanly on video. Instead, manipulate the DOM before you record.

  1. Right-click the sensitive text (e.g., a customer's Social Security Number or account balance) and select Inspect.
  2. In the Elements panel, double-click the text node.
  3. Change the text to `XXX-XX-XXXX` or `$0.00`.
  4. Press Enter. The UI updates instantly.
  5. Take your screenshot or begin your video recording safely.

Automated Sanitization

For engineering teams, instruct users to run `document.designMode = "on"` in the console to easily edit any text on the page prior to capture, or deploy a bookmarklet that automatically scrambles numeric values matching SSN/Credit Card regex patterns.

Desktop Hygiene

If you must record your full desktop instead of a specific application window, enforce these rules:

  • Enable "Do Not Disturb" mode to prevent Slack notifications or emails from appearing on screen.
  • Close all browser tabs except the one being debugged. Tab titles frequently contain sensitive customer names.
  • Hide your bookmarks bar.