Video hosting YouTube has proposed a new tool that will allow you to hide the face in the video. If you have posted a video on the network whose members want to remain anonymous, you will only need to follow a few simple steps.
Sometimes videos posted on Google's service become evidence of a crime or a guarantee of protection. One's own position expressed to the whole world should not give the author of the statement a feeling of fear for his own views. A new YouTube feature detects faces in a video, after which the face is hidden by "noise", "pixelation" and simple blurring.
If you need to hide faces in your own video, click on the "Enhance Video" button, which is located just above the player, then select the "Additional functions" subsection, in the "Blur all faces" menu that opens, click "Apply". Use the preview to make sure all faces are hidden, then you can delete the original material.
YouTube is a global video service, with about 18 billion views per month, receiving up to seventy hours of video every minute. World news spreads from eyewitnesses on YouTube in seconds. “This is a new channel of interaction and a source through which people learn about events,” the Washington Post quoted Deputy Chief Amy Mitchell in Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Emma Draper, a spokesman for Privacy International, notes that YouTube is going against the current trend of facial recognition. If a person's face is hidden, it will not endanger his life. That is, security will be provided to representatives of protest actions, refugees, victims of rape.
However, this is not yet a complete disguise, as noted by security expert Ashkan Soltani. Voice timbre, background details, height, weight - all this can make it possible to recognize a person without a face. Yes, and according to YouTube representatives, the new function is not without errors: video quality, viewing angle, lighting, interference add the likelihood that some faces will not be hidden.
