Hi Elina
I am looking to commission a few photojournalists in Iran interested? Get in touch cc@demotix.com www.demotix.com
Demotix believes in everyone's right to free political speech and expression without fear for their own personal safety. We don't store any private user information and we advise our users that are concerned about the privacy of their reading and posting habits to hide them by using anonymous services such as TOR.
TOR prevents websites from learning your location; it prevents eavesdroppers from learning what information you're fetching and where you're getting it from. Also every single image you take with your digital camera or phone is crammed full of meta-data. That data includes what camera/phone it comes from and the barcode. Barcode means credit card that bought it, or phone number of telephone. Which means that with almost no difficulty at all, I can look at a photo on the web and figure out who took it. We automatically scrub every single image and video that's uploaded to us before it's published.
'Joe Public' in Tehran, say, uploads some pictures of President Ahmadinejad dancing naked in a field waving a flag with "I ADORE AMERICA" all over it. He's uploaded it through Tor, and we have scrubbed his images. He could be a She. BUT the Security Services in Tehran don't like it and want to know who uploaded them. They call the images a National Security Threat and ask us at Demotix to tell them who uploaded.
We simply had to incorporate Demotix the company in a country which would allow us to say 'Get Lost'.... we finally settled on the UK because a) our courts take the right to a fair trial perhaps more seriously than anywhere else and would reject the Iranian request for us, and b) our laws to protect journalists are some of the best in the world and would - in the last resort - allow Demotix to go to jail rather than release the information. For more info-
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/
tur...izen_journalism
Commenting by HaloScan
