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Google adds face blurring technology to YouTube

Google has added a new face blurring feature into YouTube in an effort to provide  visual anonymity  for  video  on the network.  Google  says the new feature has been added following a recent observation from human rights group called WITNESS that no  social networking  site offers such  technology . To use the feature, users need to select the video they want to edit within YouTube's Video Enhancement tool, then go to Additional Features and click the “Apply” button placed under the 'Blur All Faces' option. YouTube also lets you have a preview of the video before making it live. There is also an option to delete the non-blurred and original copy of the video from your account. Google has explained the feature with an example of the Arab Spring protests in Egypt. The Internet  giant, however, points out that this feature is an “emerging technology” and that it might not be 100 percent accurate...