Hello all, I'm sure some of you saw today's news that YouTube announced a new face blur tool<http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/07/face-blurring-when-footage-requires.html>into their editing suite - as they put it: "Whether you you want to share sensitive protest footage without exposing the faces of the activists involved, or share the winning point in your 8-year-old’s basketball game without broadcasting the children’s faces to the world, our face blurring technology is a first step towards providing visual anonymity for video on YouTube."
Many of the people on this list have been advocating to YouTube and other commercial platforms to incorporate visual anonymity tools and while we recognize this is not a panacea to the problem of online visual privacy - we think its a step in the right direction. My colleague Sam Gregory also wrote a blog today that discusses some of the human rights use cases for a tool like this, not just in protest situations or crises situations such as Syria, but for anyone concerned with anonymous speech in our visual and networked age. Here's his post: http://blog.witness.org/2012/07/visual-anonymity-and-youtubes-new-blurring-tool/ Looking forward to people's thoughts. Would be great if you're willing to share them publicly that you would do so on our blog or tweet @SamGregory, me at @matissebh or @witnessorg Thanks! Matisse ********* Matisse Bustos Hawkes Communications Manager WITNESS See it. Film it. Change it. t: 1 718 783 2000 ext. 306 [email protected] @matissebh | @witnessorg *New Human Rights Channel on YouTube - curated by WITNESS + Storyful: www.youtube.com/humanrights*
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