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YouTube Offers Face-Blurring in Video Uploads

July 18, 2012 - ABC News Technology

YouTube releases a new face-blurring tool designed for human rights activists and others who may want to protect people in video.
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Social Media and International Activism

July 18, 2012 - UStream

Livestream of a Century Foundation Panel: Social Media and International Activism. Kim Howell sits as a panelist and announces the new YouTube face-blur feature.
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YouTube Now Lets You Blur Faces in YouTube. Will It Keep Human Rights Activists Safe?

July 18, 2012 - Slate

Blogger Torie Busch discusses whether or not the new face-blurring feature on YouTube will actually provide protection to human rights activists or "a sense of false security".
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YouTube Now Lets You Blur Faces on Video Uploads

July 18, 2012 - NBC Technology

YouTube's new face-blurring tool could help save reputations as well as lives of human rights activists. MSNBC also warns activists to be wary of other methods available to authorities for tracking the source of video uploads.
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Google Launches YouTube Face-Blurring Tool

July 18, 2012 - The Next Web

With the increasing number of people uploading human rights footage taken from their iPhones, risks to anonymity has become a pressing concern. YouTube has launched a face-blurring tool to protect the identities of people in uploaded videos.
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Now You Can Blur Faces on Your Risky YouTube Videos

July 18, 2012 - CNET

CNET reviews YouTube's new face-blurring tool and provides step-by-step instructions for its use.
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Visual Anonymity: YouTube Now Lets You Blur Faces With One Click

July 18, 2012 - Tech Crunch

YouTube is becoming, "an increasingly important part of how news is spread." Google's new face-blurring tool for the video streaming website allows users to share videos of human rights activists while not putting them at risk.
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Texas Judge Rules that Atmosphere is Protected Under the Public Trust Doctrine

July 11, 2012 - Washington Post

Our partners at the Trust iMatter campaign have made the argument that the atmosphere is a public trust - entrusted to the federal government for its preservation and protection. The judge hearing the case in Texas agreed.
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New Mexico Allows Lawsuit to Protect Climate as Public Trust to Continue

July 9, 2012 - Courting Climate Change in New Mexico

A judge in New Mexico has agreed to allow a case brought by youth plaintiffs against the state to enact scientifically-viable climate recovery plans to continue. This is the second state (after Texas) to rule to allow the case to continue. These lawsuits are part of the advocacy of our partners at the iMatter TRUST campaign .
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Research and Advocacy Unit of Zimbabwe Discusses Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

July 2, 2012 - RAU's Blog

Our former partners discuss examples of women speaking about about the violence perpetrated against them, including a link to the recently produced "Our Plea: Women and Girls from the Central African Republic Turn to the ICC for Justice"
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