YouTube release features 'Blur'

San Francisco: video sharing site YouTube adds new features to its users. This feature allows users to post video's face as well as starring in the video become faint or blurry.

As described page Digital Spy recently, YouTube's latest features released to provide privacy to disguise the identity of the user, on Thursday (19/7). In addition, Google's service marked the first step to provide "visual anonymity" on the popular streaming sites.

YouTube said the party, this feature will appeal to activists who want to keep your identity to remain confidential. But the company warned that it is "new technology" that still has some problems for some.

"This is a new technology, sometimes have difficulty to detect faces depends on the angle, lighting, barriers and video quality. Due to the human rights record is also very risky to people who post videos and their role in the video. memikiran important for other ways to protect yourself and the people in your video, "said a company blog.

To use the new YouTube features, the user must first upload the recording. Then the user can use the blur effect on the face in the video, which is located between Video Enhancement options.

YouTube was founded by former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005. Video sharing sites that have been under the ownership of Google since November 2006. The site is said to have been used by more than 800 million users around the world

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