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Secure Tools for Activists: When to Make Designs and When to Make Demands What tech tools should human rights defenders use when balancing efficacy and safety - open source secure tools or insecure mainstream platforms? Morgan Hargrave unpacks the pros and cons of each and discusses the WITNESS strategy. Morgan Hargrave November 18, 2014
Metadata Month — October 2014 Tech News Digest The contextual information that’s embedded in all of your media holds great promise for making good citizen reporting easier to find, verify and put to use. Morgan Hargrave November 3, 2014
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. Martin Tzanev October 14, 2014
Human Rights Video and the Open Internet – September 2014 Tech News Digest This post is the beginning of a monthly series on technology and human rights in the news, written by our technology advocacy team. This month, we look at net neutrality and the work of the Global Net Neutrality Coalition. Morgan Hargrave September 29, 2014
#Instagood Tips for Nonprofits #Instagood tips for nonprofits will help you start and manage an instagram account to be part of your organization's online storytelling goals. WITNESS July 17, 2014
How An Eyewitness Mode Helps Activists (and Others) Be Trusted Individuals and social networks can both benefit from functionality that would allow video uploaders to add metadata, enhancing the trustworthiness of their media. Sam Gregory March 3, 2014
Four Ways InformaCam Powers Mobile Media Verification Our partners at the Guardian Project posted today about how our joint project InformaCam provides mobile media (photos/video) verification. We share the overview here. Matisse Bustos Hawkes January 6, 2014
Drones for Good? The Basic Human Rights Considerations Ruminating upon what some purport as the inevitable; the widespread integration of aerial robots into other areas of society. We explore the initial concerns and possibilities surrounding the use of drones for human rights monitoring and activism. Sarah Stein Kerr November 1, 2013
InformaCam Rises to the Knight News Challenge The same information that journalists and judges use to verify a human rights video is what repressive regimes use to identify and target activists. How can video activists stay credible and safe? ...with InformaCam. WITNESS February 1, 2013
Video Advocacy at a Crossroads: 2012’s Dangers & 2013’s Solutions Video is increasingly at the nexus of opportunity and danger for human rights activists. Video helps activists to document, confront, circumvent, and lobby against oppressive authorities—but it also allows those authorities to stalk them. Here's what we think will happen in 2013. WITNESS January 22, 2013
Is This For Real? How InformaCam Improves Verification of Mobile Media Files There is currently a deluge of media coming from the world’s mobile devices for potential use as evidence or trusted sources for journalists. WITNESS and the Guardian Project are working to provide a mechanism, InformaCam, to verify and authenticate this footage. WITNESS January 15, 2013
Blog Action Day: The Power of We at WITNESS We're an organization based on the concept of partnership. In fact, last Thursday we held our annual gala fundraiser in New York City and its theme was "Co-Lab: Celebrating 20 Years of Collaborative Activism." Matisse Bustos Hawkes October 15, 2012
You Are Being Watched: What Faceprints Mean for Generation Y On July 18, YouTube launched a new tool that would enable users to blur the faces in the videos they uploaded, thereby protecting the identities of people featured in them. The platform explicitly identified the human rights threat as a primary motivator for this online technological development. WITNESS August 21, 2012
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. WITNESS August 7, 2012
Visual 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. Sam Gregory July 18, 2012