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"YouTube has introduced a face-blurring tool for users who wish to remain incognito in uploaded content. The Google-owned service described the move as the first step towards providing &amp;quot;visual anonymity&amp;quot; on the popular streaming website. YouTube said that the feature will be of particular interest to activists who desire to keep their identity under wraps, but warned that it is an &amp;quot;emerging technology&amp;quot; with several issues to work around. &amp;quot;This is emerging technology, which means it sometimes has difficulty detecting faces depending on the angle, lighting, obstructions and video quality,&amp;quot; read a statement on the firm&amp;#039;s blog. &amp;quot;Because human rights footage, in particular, opens up new risks to the people posting videos and to those filmed, it&amp;#039;s important to keep in mind other ways to protect yourself and the people in your videos.&amp;quot; YouTube was founded by former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005, and has been under Google ownership since November 2006. The site boasts more than 800 million worldwide users, who watch a combined total of more than 3 billion hours of video each month. YouTube users must first upload their footage before adding the face-blurring effect, located among the Video Enhancement options. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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