{"id":23842,"date":"2012-07-19T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23842"},"modified":"2012-07-19T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:42:43","slug":"youtube-introduces-face-blurring-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/07\/youtube-introduces-face-blurring-feature","title":{"rendered":"YouTube&#8217;s Sharp New Tool Blurs Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23843\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23843\" title=\"face-blurr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/face-blurr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/face-blurr.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/face-blurr-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Flickr user Ravenmagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>YouTube&#8217;s newest feature is a one-click face scrambler for uploaded videos. The target audience? Syrian activists&#8230; and soccer moms who don&#8217;t want their child&#8217;s face online.<\/p>\n<p>Citizen reporters in war zones and unfree societies around the world, from Syria to Zimbabwe, have embraced YouTube. YouTube has now launched a new tool for users in dangerous environments&#8211;a facial obscurer that digitizes faces in videos uploaded to YouTube. The algorithm-driven feature allows authors to automatically blur the faces in any video, public or private, on YouTube. A post on YouTube&#8217;s official blog also indicates the feature is aimed towards parents who do not want their children identified in publicly available video clips.<\/p>\n<p>The facial obscurer is based on existing technology from Witness, a New York-based human rights video organization cofounded by musician Peter Gabriel. YouTube and Witness have had an ongoing relationship; the two collaborated (along with Storyful) on the recent launch of YouTube&#8217;s Human Rights Channel, which curates citizen journalism and news from unfree societies in a one-stop shop for activists, politicians, journalists, and interested members of the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-click face scrambler for uploaded videos is YouTube&#8217;s newest feature &#8211; launched particularly for users in dangerous environments or parents who want to protect the identity of their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-23842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}