- The NYPD Wants to Know Your Thoughts on Bodycams (Kind of) Many police departments in the US, including the NYPD, are expanding their use of bodycams. But is this enough?
- Access to the Internet is a Human Right WITNESS joins a coalition of groups to speak out against state-led internet shutdowns and to demand that governments around the world #KeepItOn.
- How to Film the Police in the U.S. A new tipsheet prepares you to act as an eyewitness to police violence. Good witnessing can de-escalate a situation, help someone confronted by police, and provide valuable documentation for advocacy and justice.
- Why WITNESS Doesn’t Have a Privacy Policy Why WITNESS is joining on to the That's Not Privacy campaign - an effort encourage companies, nonprofits, and website owners of all stripes to call their privacy policies something a little more accurate.
- 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.
- New Mobile App ‘CameraV’ Helps Documenters Create Verifiable Media New Android app CameraV helps verify and store contextual information about pieces of citizen media to improve their ability to be used for documentation.
- 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.’
- Use This App to Film the Police… Or Not What do you need to have and know to be ready to film police safely and effectively, with or without a dedicated mobile app?
- Film the Police? Not in Spain. Spain's Ley Mordaza - or "Gag Law" went into effect July 1st 2015 severely limiting the rights of citizens to openly protest and to film police officers.
- WITNESS Tech Digest: Video From Your Phone, Live and Direct We look at a myriad of new live streaming apps for your smart phone and address their potential uses for human rights advocacy and documentation.
- WITNESS Joins Call for the Creation of UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy WITNESS joins a growing coalition of privacy, human rights, and civil liberties organizations who are uniting to call for the United Nations Human Rights Commission to add a Special Rapporteur on Privacy.
- WITNESS Tech Digest: Transparency Reports on Government Interference Internet companies are producing more transparency reports about governments' demands on the companies to hand over users' data and take down their content.
- ACLU App Encourages Citizen Witnesses to Document Police Encounters Morgan Hargrave reviews the ACLU's Mobile Justice, a new app that allows users to document interactions with police and upload video and reports to ACLU servers.
- The Tech of Citizen Witnessing in 2015 — January Tech News Digest We share our hopes for what we'd like to see happen with developments in technology in 2015 that can support safer and more effective citizen witnessing.
- Security for All – November 2014 Tech News Digest Privacy shouldn't be an afterthought for anyone designing online tools. Digital security, while extremely important for human rights activists, should be accessible to everyone.