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YouTube’s New Face Blurring Feature Can Save Lives, Embarrassment

July 18, 2012 - Gizmodo

"Anything that allows citizens to freely expose any abuse and promote change is good news," according to Gizmodo. WITNESS agrees and is pleased that YouTube has answered their call for face blurring and identity protection options in video sharing.

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Google Unveils New Face-Blurring Tool for YouTube

July 18, 2012 - Value Walk

The increasing need for privacy on the internet has encourage Google to launch the new face-blurring tool on YouTube. Adam Conway of Youtube states that the tool will be helpful to activists as well as everyday users.
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YouTube Adds New Facial Blurring Feature to Protect Children and Activists

July 18, 2012 - Daily Mail

With citizen journalism on the rise, YouTube responds to WITNESS' call for a face blurring tool to protect the identities of vulerable individuals. See a how-to video on the new feature here.
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YouTube Adds Face-Blurring Tool

July 18, 2012 - PC Magazine

YouTube's new face blurring option will compliment its recent work on citizen reporting, including the Human Rights Channel that the site launched with WITNESS and Storyful earlier this year.
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To Help Dissidents, YouTube Introduces Face-Blurring Tool

July 18, 2012 - NPR

YouTube is becoming "a destination where people worldwide come to share their stories, including activists." Not only did they launch the Human Rights Channel with WITNESS and Storyful earlier this year, they are now adding a face-blurring tool to protect visual anonymity and keep activists safe.

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YouTube Launches Face-Blurring Feature to Protect Protesters

July 18, 2012 - TIME Techland

In addition to launching a Human Rights Channel with WITNESS and Storyful, YouTube has now added a face-blurring tool in order to protect the identities of individuals that appear in videos shared on the site. In particular, this feature will help to keep protesters safe.
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YouTube Introduces Auto Face Blurring

July 18, 2012 - Kit Guru

Kit Guru comments on YouTube's launch of a face-blurring feature. This new tool will be very useful for activists wishing to publicly share videos while still protecting the identities of individuals that appear in them.
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YouTube Responds to Human Rights Group: Allow Users to Blur Out Faces with One Easy Click

July 18, 2012 - Inquisitr

WITNESS has been "asking big-name Internet media outlets to take steps to help increase privacy controls," particularly to add options for visual anonymity to better serve human rights defenders. YouTube has answered this call by adding a face-blurring tool to the site.

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YouTube Lets People Blur Faces in Videos

July 18, 2012 - France 24

As the number of people sharing human rights footage increases, YouTube released their new face-blurring tool to protect their identities.
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YouTube Adds Face-Blurring for Privacy

July 18, 2012 - Information Week

YouTube videos that include human rights footage are becoming increasingly important in the spreading of news. The new face-blurring tool helps protect the privacy of the human rights advocates who post these videos.
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