Human Rights Video, Privacy and Visual Anonymity in the Facebook Age
Protester’s placard thanking youth of Egypt and Facebook (via Twitter user @richardengelnbc, and now widely re-posted online) The successful nationwide organizing and subsequent protests in Egypt to...
View ArticleThe Secure Smart Camera App for Human Rights Video
Earlier this year we announced our “Cameras Everywhere” initiative which hopes to address some of the changes happening around human rights video online and on mobile phones. The tools for creating and...
View ArticleWatch: Cameras Everywhere – Presentation at Re:Publica 2011
A couple of weeks ago I presented at Re:Publica, the largest social media conference in Germany. Since the conference gives a generous 50 minutes to its speakers I had the opportunity not only to talk...
View ArticleTake Action For Internet Access and Digital Rights at the e-G8!
Tomorrow, the French Presidency will host a meeting – the e-G8 Forum – focusing exclusively on shaping the agenda of the forthcoming G8 Summit around key global Internet policy issues. This will be...
View ArticleObscuraCam v1: A Mobile App for Visual Privacy
Last week we, along with our our friends and colleagues at the Guardian Project, released the first public beta app from the SecureSmartCam project. ObscuraCam, an Android camera phone application is...
View ArticleCrowd-Sourcing Surveillance: When Does Little Brother Get Too Big?
Post written by: Mariel Gruszko, a WITNESS intern working with the “Cameras Everywhere” and “Tools and Tactics” initiatives. On June 16, riots swept downtown Vancouver after the Vancouver Canucks lost...
View ArticleAhmad Bayasi’s Story: Citizen Video Authentication in Syria and Beyond
By Tanya O’Carroll. Tanya is interning with our Cameras Everywhere Initiative. She is a Master’s candidate in Human Rights Studies at Columbia University. When a video was posted online in April...
View ArticleIn the News: Authenticating Video Footage as Evidence in Sri Lanka
Mariel Gruszko is a WITNESS intern working with the “Cameras Everywhere” and “Tools and Tactics” initiatives. She recently obtained an MA degree specializing in media anthropology. Read her previous...
View ArticleDid Citizen Media Help Get Us the Story That Counts in the London Riots?
By Tanya O’Carroll. Tanya is interning with our Cameras Everywhere Initiative. She is a Master’s candidate in Human Rights Studies at Columbia University. Read her previous post on the authentication...
View ArticleNew Report Makes Recommendations for How to Enhance Potential of Human Rights...
Image downloaded from flickr I’m pleased to announce the launch of our new report: “Cameras Everywhere: Current Challenges and Opportunities at the Intersection of Human Rights, Video and Technology.”...
View Article#Video4change Weekly Digest: Sept. 9, 2011
It’s been an exciting week here at WITNESS. We released our “Cameras Everywhere” report and many of us have been sharing it and we’re looking forward to discussion to come. The report surveys the...
View ArticleHow Funders Can Support Technology for Human Rights and the Activists Using It
Sameer Padania, the lead author/researcher of our “Cameras Everywhere” report spoke recently at “The Power of Information” conference in London, organized by the Indigo Trust, the Institute for...
View ArticleYahoo! and YouTube Share Learning on Business Practices to Protect Human...
By Tanya O’Carroll. Tanya is interning with our Cameras Everywhere Initiative. She is a Master’s candidate in Human Rights Studies at Columbia University. Read her previous posts on the authentication...
View ArticleSetting a Global Standard for Human Rights and Technology Companies
By Susan Morgan. Susan is Executive Director of the Global Network Initiative, a multi-stakeholder group of companies, civil society organizations (including human rights and press freedom groups),...
View ArticlePromoting Cameras Everywhere Recommendations at RightsCon and Stanford...
This week, WITNESS is busy in the Bay Area of California where we’ll be at multiple public meetings discussing ideas in our Cameras Everywhere leadership initiative. We’re speaking on a panel at the...
View ArticleU.S. Needs Strong Privacy Protections for Digital Communications
Mark Stanley is New Media Manager for the Center for Democracy & Technology, a non-profit public interest organization based in Washington, DC, and San Francisco working on Internet policy. One of...
View ArticleA Few Reasons Activsts Shouldn’t be Banned from the Internet
Last month on Human Rights Day (December 10th) I wrote an opinion piece for the HuffingtonPost about the increasingly important role technology companies and platforms are playing in the human rights...
View ArticleAmy Robbins: Join Me In Supporting WITNESS For the Next 20 Years
Amy Robbins By Amy Robbins Amy Robbins is a member of the WITNESS Board of Directors and was the 2011 Focus for Change Benefit Dinner and Concert Co-Chair. As WITNESS celebrates its 20th anniversary...
View ArticleIntroducing InformaCam, The Next Release of the SecureSmartCam Project
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...
View ArticleThoughts and Reactions on The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Report on Funding...
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...
View ArticleAre News Photography Standards Out of Touch With the Cameras Everywhere World...
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...
View ArticleWhose Media Is It?: How Police Requests for Unreleased Footage Blur the Line...
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, and...
View ArticleVisual Anonymity and YouTube’s New Blurring Tool
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...
View ArticleTips for Activists Using the YouTube Face Blur Tool
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 – as a way to...
View ArticleFront Page News: Why We Can All Benefit from Tools to Verify Video
Screen capture of a video still from the article “Brutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West” by C.J. Chivers, as reported on Sept. 5th 2013 on the online version of the New York Times. On...
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