YouTube Tool Blurs Faces To Protect Privacy

YouTube plans to give video makers an easy way to blur faces to protect the privacy of people who dont want to appear in online videos.

In an effort to serve the human rights community and to address privacy complaints from people featured without permission in other peoples videos, Googles YouTube is developing a way for video makers to easily obscure the faces of people in their videos.
Google has had the ability to blur faces in still images for several years and has deployed the technology in an automated fashion to obscure the faces of people captured in its Street View images.
Within a few months, YouTube hopes to make the technology available for online video, said Victoria Grand, YouTube director of global communications and policy.
Grand mentioned YouTubes blurring technology in a panel discussion at Google Big Tent, a technology policy event held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., on Thursday, and provided further details after the session.
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The human rights community, said Grand, has been asking for the ability to conceal peoples faces in videos for several years.
Blurring peoples faces in a video is not a difficult post-production task, given the right digital video software. There are
videos on YouTube
that explain how to do so. But many YouTube users upload their videos without any editing or post-production work, or without asking all the people featured in the video.
YouTube is working to add a blurring tool to its
video editing toolkit
, so extra software isnt necessary.
Grand says that the tool will provide YouTube with another option for dealing with privacy complaints submitted by people depicted in another users videos. At the moment, she said, when YouTube receives this sort of complaint, it gives the video creator two days to remove the video. If no action is taken and the complaint is not resolved, YouTube will remove the offending video.
Once the blur tool is made available, video creators will have the option to edit the video in question so the complainants face is blurred. This will allow the video to remain on YouTube.
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