Contact Lens - Raw/Unredacted File Deletion?

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Hello, My goal is to perform a recording with contact lens to redact voice/chat files and **never ** save the original files. For compliance reasons, I do not want this information in our systems if i can help it. It's not clear in the documentation, at least to me, that the original files in the S3 bucket from a recording will need to exist.

I was able to complete the post-analysis redaction and limit what an agent can see when viewing a contact. They are unable to listen/see the unredacted conversation and only have access to redacted information. Great! From the Connect web page, this all seems to work fantastically.

Now, to what is not so great. The S3 bucket still has the original file in the S3 bucket with the unredacted information. Yuk! I don't want to store any sensitive data, if possible, in my S3 bucket.

The documentation seems to be a bit confusing on this matter: (https://github.com/awsdocs/amazon-connect-admin-guide/blob/master/doc_source/enable-analytics.md#enable-redaction).

Option #1: Generate both redacted and original transcripts and audio. Option #2: Generate redacted transcript only, and both redacted and original audio.

Based on the options in the redaction, it seems to me to suggest that "original audio" will always exist?

Down the way a bit when discussing using dynamic contact attributes we have the following options.

Option #1: None Option #2: RedactedOnly Option #3: RedactedAndOriginal

Hmmmm. "RedactedOnly" you say?

I went ahead and setup a dynamic attribute and passed this to the recording and analytics behavior block thinking that I would only get the redacted information after post-analysis has been completed. ie: Delete the original file after it's done it's job.

Am i missing something? Gotcha's not documented? Oversight on fundamentals?

pjn
asked a year ago222 views
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Hi pjn!

While we do always automatically store an original recording (the RedactedOnly option you are seeing is for the transcript), you can immediately delete or expire this S3 Lifecycle Policies.

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EXPERT
answered a year ago
  • Hello! Thank you. I'm not sure what happened originally when i tested where i thought deleting the original audio also deleted the redacted. I tested again and that was not the case, so this helps significantly.

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You may also need to consider what happens if you do require an audit on the raw original recordings. This may not be the case for your specific workload, but customers asked for the "source of truth" to be able to get access to the original information, as needed.

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Magda
answered a year ago
  • Agreed. We do not have those stipulations today but will keep that in mind if ever asked.

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