Cameras Everywhere Report 2011
WITNESS’ Cameras Everywhere aims to ensure that the thousands of people using video for human rights can do so as effectively, safely and ethically as possible.
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Cameras Everywhere Press
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Google Launches YouTube Face-Blurring Tool
Source: The Next Web | July 18, 2012With 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
Source: CNET | July 18, 2012CNET 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
Source: Tech Crunch | July 18, 2012YouTube 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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The Global Rise of Citizen Media
Source: Citizen Media Summit blog on Global Voices | July 2, 2012Matisse 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?
Source: La bitacora de Fran Sanchez Laguna | July 2, 2012Una 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
Source: The Guardian | June 29, 2012Sam Gregory states that providing privacy choices for people online is important and fundamental to human rights.
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Technical and Tactical Defenses to Facial Recognition Technology
Source: PBS MediaShift | June 18, 2012A 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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Sam Gregory Speaks at the 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference 2012
Source: Watch the panel discussion | June 18, 2012Sam speaks on the ethics of storytelling on a panel moderated by Ethan Zuckerman and including fellow panelists: Laura Amico, Homicide Watch DC; Michael Poffenberger, resolve.org; Keith Oatley, University of Toronto; Benjamen Walker, WFMU
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Yvette Alberdingk Thijm on the Launch of the Human Rights Channel
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Technology and Human Rights panel at Netroots Nation
Source: MIT Center for Civic Media Blog | June 9, 2012Research Assistant Matt Stempeck liveblogs the panel Safeguarding Democracy: Innovations in Technology and Human Rights.
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August 7, 2012 - By Bryan Nunez
Recently, YouTube launched a feature that allows blurring on videos uploaded to their site. It’s a step we’ve pushed for from the commercial video-sharing platforms and social networks...
July 18, 2012 - By Sam Gregory
Today YouTube announced a new tool within their upload editor that enables people to blur the faces within the video, and then publish a version with blurred faces. WITNESS has advocated for YouTube...
May 31, 2012 - By Guest Blogger
By Teresa Eggers
A near 6-month battle between British news broadcasters and the police has recently concluded: last December’s court decision that ordered television companies including BBC, ITN,...
The App that Authenticates SmartPhone Photos (FR)
Source: Radio France Interationale | February 11, 2013
Radio France Internationale reported on InformaCam in their radio broadcast, as well as their print website.
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Source: WAMU Kojo Nnamdi Show | February 5, 2013
Sam Gregory was a featured panelist on the radio show, discussing "the different ways innovators use crowdsourcing today while asking what obstacles still could be limiting its potential."
More »Human Rights group wants to put an end to fake mobile images and videos
Source: The Daily Dot | February 1, 2013
"But now one group is trying to bring a little more transparency to the process with a new app and metadata standard that promises auto-verification of a photo's legitimacy." This article about InformaCam interview Bryan Nunez about WITNESS's innovative app.
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