- The Adobe Content Authenticity Initiative approach to authenticity infrastructure against media manipulation Launch of the Content Authenticity Initiative White Paper Today the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) spearheaded by Adobe, Twitter and the New York Times publishes its White Paper. WITNESS is a co-author on the paper and has been part of the Working Group developing the standards alongside other groups including TruePic, Microsoft, the BBC, CBC and […]
- Tracing trust: Why we must build authenticity infrastructure that works for all May 2020 TLDR: Coronavirus has dramatically increased the stakes for how we deal with issues of manipulated, fake and deceptive video and audio online, with governments, companies and publics responding to the need to discern truth from falsehood. One solution to misinformation and disinformation is to better track what is authentic, what is manipulated and […]
- 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.
- Introducing YouTube’s Updated Blurring Feature Edited to add: Learn how to use this tool in less than 4 minutes with our updated how-to video! From Syria to Charlottesville, it’s not a safe time to be a human rights defender. It’s not a safe time to be associated with the fight for human rights at all. But fighting for human rights […]
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.
- Data and Storytelling: Crisis Mapping For Human Rights Solutions WITNESS' Alexandra Zaretsky learns that maps are not merely a way to freeze objects, people, and places at a specific moment in time. Rather, in the hands of this visionary community working on maps to enable social good, they can be so much more.
- What We’re Reading: July 25 Edition Every week we publish a list of our favorite articles on human rights, video, and advocacy. This week features the promotion of LGBT rights in India, the use of social media to uncover the mystery behind the downed Malaysia Flight MH17 and much more.
- The US Supreme Court Agrees: Your iPhone Isn’t Just a Phone In a win for privacy advocates, the US Supreme Court recently ruled that police must get a warrant before searching the content of cellphones.
- What We’re Reading, May 16, 2014 From Afghanistan to Brazil, from trends in journalism to digital security and privacy, see what WITNESS staff are reading about this week.
- 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.
- 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.
