YouTube Launches Face Blurring Tool to Keep Protesters Anonymous

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YouTube Launches Face Blurring Tool to Keep Protesters Anonymous
[link to www.popsci.com]

from the popsci link
but the tool could mean life or death for protestors



Last Edited by Phennommennonn on 07/18/2012 04:22 PM

thx for the update
this could be useful to many people

i dunno....."to keep protesters anonymous"

theyre protesting publicly
they know the risks

this smells - sorry

then what do you think the purpose of this is? it can only help protect people. if youtube wanted they can still remove the blur

this tool is going to be coupled with a complaint form, and they can sensor anyone they don't like.

SO if a really bad thing is caught on camera in public, If the person does not like it, they can sensor themselves out of the video.

you can bet your ass if they got software to detect a face in a photo, they are scanning them into facial recognition databases.

embolden the public to release vids....false sense of security....
and then give the uncensored vids (originals) to the feds.

Nice concept.

bigtime

I,ll stick to the mask.Thank you

I don't like this it all.

No one should need to be blurring their faces out, unless they have something to be ashamed over.
Its just gonna be used by people to get away with stuff.

HMMM> So, like the girl that google earth street view captured outside her home completely naked could go to youtube, find a video where someone is talking about it and has the pic in their video--she herself can blur her face (so no-one else can see who it is) or only the person who uploaded.

Right now, they are saying the person who uploaded can do this, but you think in the future it could be the people featured. That sounds like a good idea, imo but I'm a private person.

People shouldn't do gross things in public anyway but seriously, has anyone not picked their underwear out of the butts (hands outside of pants) when they were teens after they looked around and thought they could get away with it for the 2 seconds it took? Is it necessary to have that replayed on youtube for the rest of your life because a security camera caught it or someone with an iphone just happened to round the corner at that very moment...LOL.

this. especially bullying videos. bonehead bullies are too stupid to not upload their attacks on victims and many have been caught this way.

Just hand that video over to us, we'll take care of the editing for you. No, don't worry, only the blurred version gets uploaded. What's that? The original file? Oh, that gets deleted of course.

Most people don't know this But Timmothy Geithner is in charge of the IRS. When my grandfather ran the IRS, people like Timmay where in Jail!

media manipulation. google owns YT....google is controlled media.

i still believe that the OWS protesters - that some were actors.

this could be why - so no comparisons can be made

i worked for them back in the 80s when hughs ran it

Last Edited by Phennommennonn on 07/18/2012 05:04 PM

what does that have to do with this thread?

@ D'Light,

this Tool is really needed!

So many Times i see Pics from People
in absurd Situations (Festivals for example)

This Cam-Thing got out of Proportion
and need to get killed (in a way)

The Face Indentification is already there,
make it available for the User too
and not only for three letter Agencies!

and they dont have that already in walmart?
on the streets?
in schools/buses?
airports et al etc

cmon

so would this make:

Epic-Beard-Man™ -> Epic-Blur-Man™

Last Edited by Anubis on 07/18/2012 05:08 PM

^^^ This ^^^

no need to give them. just give them access at all times to unchanged videos.

I agree....something smells fishy

I think this youtube feature will give everyone a false sense of anonymity (sp?)

If you upload a video to youtube and there software does the facial blurring....then youtube has a copy of the original video with the un-blurred faces. I can't believe that youtube won't save a copy of the original.

Last Edited by Morpheus on 07/18/2012 06:07 PM

Youtube will still be able to see it, and sell the "faced" versions to our government helpers

^^THIS^^

Interesting observation.

The government has all the backdoor keys to this software so they can find out who's protesting anytime they want.

That's because Youtube will obviously be storing the original unedited copies of the videos and will hand them over to leo whenever requested and will share the videos with the nsa at will as they are keen to do.

Utube = NSA. You blur, they unblur using anti-algorhythm