YouTube introduces face-blurring technology

[Jazzy]

Rioters will be able to hide their identities in video footage they post online after Google introduced new face-blurring technology.



The tool, unveiled by Google-owned video website YouTube, will allow human faces to be blurred automatically, raising the prospect that offences filmed and uploaded might go unpunished.



Dozens of clips were posted on the site during last summer’s disorder that spread across the country from London.



One of the defining videos showed a group of men robbing Malaysian student Ashraf Rossli while pretending to help him. The incident was filmed on a smartphone and submitted to YouTube. His attackers were jailed earlier this year.



However, Google said the development would protect human rights activists and campaigners who would face punitive action if they were shown to the authorities in videos of protests.

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Your thoughts on this?

 

[Evil Eye]

Obviously it can be used for the wrong reasons... but Google's right as well.

And it could give some privacy during public events.

Besides, you're only really saving the stupid people who'd post a video of themselves doing something illegal and not bothering to cover their faces.