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YouTube introduces face-blurring technology

Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 20/07/2012 23:38

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.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9413317/YouTube-introduces-face-blurring-technology.html

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