- 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 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.
- Mobil-Eyes Us: Using Live Video and the Power of Networks for Smart Activism How can we use the power of live video to connect people to the causes they care about, & provide immediate & meaningful ways to act by using their skills?
- See, Hear… Act?: Co-Present Storytelling and Action How can emerging tech tools like live-streaming or task routing apps be used to connect communities of support with activists on the ground in real time?
- 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.’
- Borrowing a Wedding Photographer’s Camera To Document War Crimes WITNESS Executive Director Yvette Alberdingk-Thijm reflects on the power of video to support UN Sustainable Development Goal # 16: Peace and Justice.
