Next come some particulars such as WITNESS’ Human Rights Channel, which curates and contextualizes video from around the world; our work with YouTube to implement a blurring feature into its editing suite in order to protect the identity of victims and those coming forth with human rights abuse allegations; and, finally, our work with The Guardian Project on the creation of ObscuraCam and InformaCam, two mobile apps developed to improve human rights abuse documentation.

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Activists and weekend warriors rejoice. Citizen journalists working in unfree societies and party animals looking to strip the incriminating information from Friday-night hijinks will enjoy a new Android application. ObscuraCam v2, produced by non-profit organizations WITNESS and The Guardian Project, anonymizes faces in online video and strips out all metadata.

As WITNESS’ Bryan Nunez notes in the article, ObscuraCam is part of a growing suite of secure camera apps and functionalities that we’re creating with our partners at the Guardian Project.

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