- Protect human rights defenders’ identities with the updated YouTube blurring feature YouTube has released an updated blur feature—in under 4 minutes, you can learn how to use this tool as part of the steps you take to protect identity.
- Vital Human Rights Evidence in Syria is Disappearing from YouTube Thousands of videos showing human rights abuses in Syria, as well as the channels that feature these videos, are being removed by YouTube.
- Mobile Filming Tools Our recommended apps and equipment for filming video of human rights abuse.
- Set your phone to ProofMode Why Proof? You see a wide pink sky and bushes in a relatively nondescript landscape. You hear an explosion in the background. The camera shakes as a man repeats, strangely calm, “Allahu akhbar.” A few seconds later, an explosion rocks the ground in front of the person filming, and the camera falls, sideways, to the […]
- 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?
- Immersive Witnessing: From Empathy and Outrage to Action There are challenges and opportunities in virtual reality, live and immersive media for social good. New WITNESS projects aim to channel this empathy into meaningful action.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.