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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WITNESS Labs
As part of WITNESS’ Cameras Everywhere Leadership Initiative, the WITNESS Labs project aims to create safer ways to communicate and share information by bridging barriers of geography, access, and personal danger. The primary audiences for the project are:
- 1) human rights defenders around the world, and
- 2) all potential citizen activist users in digital communities.
The SecureSmartCam App
Our first Labs project, the SecureSmartCam app (“SSC”), is a collaboration with The Guardian Project. SSC is an app that protects images, video, audio, data and identity of people creating and depicted in human rights video. Built on the Android platform using open-source technology, SSC will be a full-fledged video, image, and audio capture- and media-processing application.
It aims to protect the identity of those filming and those being filmed, protect relevant metadata, and integrate human rights standards of consent and intent into mobile video. Rather than rely on post-production editing, it will allow near real-time annotation of consent, and anonymization. It will integrate human rights considerations and practices into the work flow of filming with a mobile device.
A secondary focus of the project is on enhancing authenticity and efficacy of video for change, by embedding relevant metadata during filming or uploading to increase the evidentiary potential of the video or to highlight the creator’s intention for consideration when re-mixing or circulating the footage.
ObscuraCam/ InformaCam
The first version of this project is called ObscuraCam. And InformaCam is a plug-in for ObscuraCam, released in January 2012.
Download ObscuraCam here (available for Android OS only at this time.)
You can follow the latest coverage of our activity in the Press tab below. And join our ObscuraCam Facebook Page to stay up-to-date on latest releases of the app.
Are you a developer? For more information or to participate in WITNESS Labs, please contact our Technology Manager, Bryan Nuñez.
May 2, 2012 - By Guest Blogger
By Teresa Eggers
A growing global trend of employing facial recognition technologies (FRTs) has increased risks of compromising the privacy and safety of anyone filmed or photographed, especially in...
March 29, 2012 - By Sara Federlein
Many of our donors and peers have been asking for the WITNESS take on the report, “Human Rights and International Justice: Opportunities and Challenges at an Inflection Point,” commissioned by The...
February 13, 2012 - By Bryan Nunez
Recently my colleague at The Guardian Project, Harlo Holmes wrote about the InformCam, the latest release from the joint collaboration between The Guardian Project and WITNESS, the SecureSmartCamera...
ObscuraCam and Other WITNESS Tools Featured in GenderIT
Source: GenderIT blog | Mayo 12, 2012
The blog which looks at internet policies and technology from a feminist perspective reviews some of ObscuraCam's features and that of other WITNESS tools on effective and safe filming.
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ObscuraCam Covered in The New York Times
Source: The New York Times "ArtsBeat" Blog | Mayo 2, 2012
The "ArtsBeat" blog details activities by the collective Activist Archivists to build capacity in the Occupy Wall Street movement and train activists to use ObscuraCam.
More »Fueled Blog Covers Alpha Video Release for ObscuraCam Mobile App
Source: Fueled | Abril 13, 2012
The Latest ObscuraCam Upgrade: v2 ALPHA Video Support is heralded by some as the future of smartphone security apps, gets protesters more than prepared for action, especially with its new video support feature.
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