Cameras Everywhere Report 2011
WITNESS’ Cameras Everywhere aims to ensure that the thousands of people using video for human rights can do so as effectively, safely and ethically as possible.
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Cameras Everywhere Report 2011 - Key Challenge
Ethics
The place of ethics in social media content and conduct is increasingly under the spotlight, primarily around usage by young people and other potentially vulnerable groups. Human rights needs, including how consent of video participants is secured, can come into conflict with the free flowing spread of content and identity through social media. Ethical frameworks and guidelines for online content are in their infancy and do not yet explicitly reflect or incorporate human rights standards.
More needs to be done to tie together ethics in digital spaces with ethics in the physical world, which might prove helpful both for those “born digital” and those that are not.
May 2, 2012 - By Guest Blogger
By Teresa Eggers
A growing global trend of employing facial recognition technologies (FRTs) has increased risks of compromising the privacy and safety of anyone filmed or photographed, especially in...
March 29, 2012 - By Sara Federlein
Many of our donors and peers have been asking for the WITNESS take on the report, “Human Rights and International Justice: Opportunities and Challenges at an Inflection Point,” commissioned by The...
February 13, 2012 - By Bryan Nunez
Recently my colleague at The Guardian Project, Harlo Holmes wrote about the InformCam, the latest release from the joint collaboration between The Guardian Project and WITNESS, the SecureSmartCamera...
ObscuraCam Covered in The New York Times
Source: The New York Times "ArtsBeat" Blog | May 2, 2012
The "ArtsBeat" blog details activities by the collective Activist Archivists to build capacity in the Occupy Wall Street movement and train activists to use ObscuraCam.
More »Fueled Blog Covers Alpha Video Release for ObscuraCam Mobile App
Source: Fueled | April 13, 2012
The Latest ObscuraCam Upgrade: v2 ALPHA Video Support is heralded by some as the future of smartphone security apps, gets protesters more than prepared for action, especially with its new video support feature.
More »How ObscuraCam Makes Your Videos Safe
Source: Fast Company» | March 26, 2012
Newly released Android app ObscuraCam lets users pixelize faces and strip metadata from Internet video.
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