Witness In The News

The Global Rise of Citizen Media

July 2, 2012 - Citizen Media Summit blog on Global Voices

Matisse Bustos Hawkes shares WITNESS projects, including ObscuraCam and how-to guides developed as part of our Tools & Tactics program, to help ensure more people use video effectively and safely around the world.
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Como Puedes Protejer A Las Personas Que Aparecen en Tus Fotos?

July 2, 2012 - La bitacora de Fran Sanchez Laguna

Una evaluacion de ObscuraCam, incluyendo funcionalidad de video (que "no han ido nada bien"). En espanol.
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Privacy Concerns at Spring Break Prompt Collective Responsibility

June 29, 2012 - The Guardian

Sam Gregory states that providing privacy choices for people online is important and fundamental to human rights.
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Huffington Post Covers Forced Evictions in Brazil Due to World Cup 2014

June 28, 2012 - Huffington Post
Publica presents the Minidoc “O Legado Somos Nós: A História de Elisângela”

June 26, 2012 - Publica

The WITNES film on Elisangela shone light on the 2014 World Cup’s devastating effects on the lives of thousands of people being forceably evicted from their homes without warning or fair compensation.

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Peter Gabriel Shares WITNESS' 20th Birthday With His Fans

June 22, 2012 - Peter Gabriel's Website

Peter Gabriel highlights WITNESS' 20th Birthday on his website.
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Al Jazeera Discusses the Role Video is Playing as "Lifeline to Outside World" from Syria

June 21, 2012 - Al Jazeera English

Tanya Karanasios, Associate Director at WITNESS, is interviewed about specific challenges Syrian activists face in archiving their video content with the possibility that it could be used as evidence in later justice proceedings.
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Matisse Bustos Hawkes Makes "Foreign Policy's" Womeratti List

June 20, 2012 - Foreign Policy

A list of 100 female tweeters around the world that everyone should follow. The list was compiled by a small group of prominent female tweeters who noticed that Foreign Policy's original list of Twiteratti was surprisingly thin on women.
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The Daily doGooder Features Our 20th Anniversary Video

June 19, 2012 - The Daily doGooder

DG delivers one, just one, excellent cause video to your inbox each day
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Technical and Tactical Defenses to Facial Recognition Technology

June 18, 2012 - PBS MediaShift

A post by Sameer Padania that originally appeared on our blog gets a feature on the MediaShift blog in their Social Media section.
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