YouTube video-sharing site introduced a feature that allows users to automatically blur (blur) faces in the video that uploaded.
As quoted by Reuters, these tools can hide the identity of political dissidents are seen in a video, according to YouTube owner, Google Inc..
In addition, these tools can also be used, for example, to obscure their faces in a video that you want to spread but do not want your kids face widespread.
Once referred to as amateur video site, YouTube turned into a major destination for the content of high-class entertainment and serious news.
Recently in this week, a study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism says that the video footage of the work of citizen journalism amateurs of various important events, such as the tsunami Japan in 2011 has become one of the many video clips most widely witnessed in the YouTube.
In recent months, YouTube has become a container for the videos on the popular uprising in Syria, which are uploaded to publicize their cause to the world.
The problem is, these videos also reveal the identity of the parties in opposition to the government of the Syrian official.
"Well when you want to share sensitive footage of demonstrations without showing a picture of the activists involved, or when sharing video footage of your child's 8-year-old who won the basketball game, but you do not want to reveal your child's face to the world, face blurring technology we have is one step forward in providing visual anonymity for the video in YouTube, "YouTube explained in his blog post on Thursday (7/19/2012) this.
This feature also allows the original copy of the uploaded video may be removed so that the videos can still personalized.
"YouTube proud to be a destination where people worldwide log on to share their stories, including the activists," according to a spokesman for YouTube.
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