That’s what YouTube announced to do months ago. Recently in July this year, a new tool of video editing from YouTube will also appear soon. The new function-facial blurring tool will let anyone using the site’s web video editor blur the identities of people existing in the videos. It is quite easy to achieve the effects simply by clicking “enhancements” tab in the video editor and apply filter.
Google warns that as face blurring is an “emerging technology”, it is far away from perfect. Google has also published additional guidelines to help people who upload sensitive footage on the website. To some extent, this will be better safe than sorry. Except for faces, other factors such as: names, car license plates, clothes, and other things that may disclose the men’s identity in the videos.
“YouTube is proud to be a destination where people worldwide come to share their stories, including activists. Along with efforts like the Human Rights Channel and Citizentube that curate these voices, we hope that the new technologies we’re rolling out will facilitate the sharing of even more stories on our platform.” YouTube blog wrote.
Such kind of tool applied in video websites is about to be the first time made by YouTube. According to the international human rights organization WITNESS’ Cameras Everywhere report,“No video-sharing site or hardware manufacturer currently offers users the option to blur faces or protect identity.”So far, no other video sharing services or websites provides such features.
Once put into practice, most users showed that it really is a cool tool. Well, what’s your opinion?
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