- Last Month in Video: Cameras got smarter. Will we? From Florida teens using video as a powerful advocacy tool, to Pakistan's High Court ruling on network shutdowns, to the supercharged technology behind "smart" cameras and facial recognition: this is Last Month in Video, February 2018 edition.
- The Hunt for Digital Evidence of the Rohingya Genocide In documenting historical records of destruction or grievous danger to a peoples over time, digital trails are a human rights crusader’s best–sometimes most accurate–source of evidence. And yet at the same time, such data can fall into the wrong hands, putting the lives of the persecuted, and those fighting for their rights, at grave risk. […]
- #EyesOnICE: Legal Issues and Security when filming Immigration Officials Resources and responses to questions around filming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) safely, ethically, and effectively.
- Watching Protests in Western Sahara Online videos document protest tactics by Sahrawi activists and repression by Moroccan authorities.
- How to Use YouTube’s New Blurring Feature to Protect Identities YouTube's blurring function allows users to blur select items such as faces or identifying information. In this post we will show you how to use the tool.
- Why YouTube’s Blurring Tool Matters and Why Other Platforms Should Have One Too We discuss why visual anonymity is important for protecting activists using video for change & look at YouTube's newly improved blurring functionality.
- Ethical Wednesdays: Graphic Footage When footage contains distressing and traumatic imagery, how can you share it with your audience effectively, responsibly, and ethically?
- What’s in a Name? For Activists, it Could be Everything Digital rights advocates have long asked Facebook to adjust their "real name" policy. Now, WITNESS and other groups have begun a new push for change through the ‘Nameless Coalition.’
- Making Secondary Trauma a Primary Issue Eyewitness Media Hub, is conducting a cross-industry study into the impact of vicarious trauma on journalists, human rights investigators and humanitarian aid workers who frequently search for eyewitness media in their work.
- Video as Evidence: Adding Detailed Information to Your Video Adding information about who, what, when, where to your video makes it easier to verify the content, therefore giving it a better chance to secure justice for human rights abuse.
- How to Backup Mobile Videos On The Fly To A Wi-Fi Drive A quick overview of how to sync an Android's mobile videos folder to a local Wi-Fi drive as an alternative to cloud backup.
- WITNESS Endorses International Principles on Human Rights & Surveillance We join 150+ organizations from 40+ countries supporting these 13 principles that explain how international human rights law applies to the current digital environment.
- Tips 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 enable easy, faster, more accessible options for preserving and enabling visual anonymity in a networked, visual age.
- The (Virtual) Bystander Effect: Witnessing Human Rights Abuse Online When a video goes viral, millions of people become witnesses. Whether it is a clumsy kitten, an adorable child, or a gruesome protest, we as viewers are transported to that moment. We see everything. We hear everything. But we change nothing.
- Tactical and Technological Defences For Facial Recognition Technology In my last post I looked at how facial recognition technology (FRT) works, how it's now in our phones, social networks and media management, and how legislators and regulators are reacting to this. But it's also increasingly used by law enforcement and for surveillance of "public" spaces.
