Responsible data considerations Information sourced from social media Protecting people’s identity on social media Many organisations seem to think that Social media posts which document violations information ‘in the public realm’ is free to use may contain video and/or images of people who it for any purpose. However, even if a person had no idea they were being filmed. Whether agrees for their information to ‘go public’ in a you are the one publishing this data or an certain way, it does not mean the information organization that would like to re-release it you can ethically be appropriated for any use. must protect individuals as much as possible. When a person posts about a human rights There are a number of helpful tools to blur violation on Twitter, it does not mean they faces in videos and photographs. For example automatically consent to becoming the focal ObscuraCam is an android phone app that point of a human rights campaign with global pixelates or redacts faces. It works either while reach. You need to contact people directly you are recording and when you load something and help them understand the possible to it from your library. YouTube has also recently consequences (positive and negative) of added a blurring feature that allows you to attracting more attention, so they can make obscure faces when you load a video. an informed decision. 64