SXSW 2012 Panel: The Ethics of Mobile Face Tagging with Bryan Nunez

What: a debate style discussion "Recognize This! The Ethics of Mobile Face Tagging"

Who: Bryan Nunez and Harlo Thomas, lead developer of The Guardian Project

When: Monday, March 12, 2012 | 11am- 12pm

Where: Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon J, 500 E. 4th St, Austin, TX

Join the conversation on Twitter: #sxsw and #mofacetag. And follow Bryan Nunez, @tech_wit and Harlo Holmes, @holmes

What right do people have to control personal images in a socially-networked age or to be visually anonymous in a video-mediated world? Startups like Viewdle are building compelling users experiences that correlate people who appear in photos taken with your smartphone, with all of the profile photos stored in your address book and social graphic. The question is, how is it decided who can be recognized and indexed, how and when, and where does control of that record reside?

The ObscuraCam project (developed by WITNESS and the Guardian Project) will be shared as one countermeasure to these trends. It is a mobile app that allows users to automatically conceal faces or objects in photos and video, using pixelization, masks or redaction. It also removes extra metadata, such as GPS location, often stored in media.

Bryan Nunez will represent WITNESS, presenting human rights advocacy driven user stories and challenges. Harlo Holmes will counter with "privacy by design" technology solutions.