New feature suggestion: add a face-blurring tool to Tella app

[cyberflaneuse]

I have been receiving numerous requests from at-risk activists around the world specifically in the context of documenting protests under hostile regimes for a secure face-blurring tool for both photos and videos.

At the moment it seems there aren't too many easy-to-use FOSS options which digital security trainers feel comfortable to suggest aside from the Signal's face-blurring tool. Other existing options are not available for recent devices/software such as the Guardian Project's Obscura Cam .

Like many other digital security trainers I highly recommend Tella for documenting human rights violations and collecting data including in the context of documenting protests, I think this feature definitely fits the scope of the Tella app and would be really useful for its community of users to securely share the photos and videos documented.

Please let me know if this is feasible.

Thank you so much.

[carohadad]

Hello hello @cyberflaneuse !!! thanks so much for opening this issue, and I'm sorry I only just saw it now.

Thank you for your nice words about Tella!

Yes, we have heard the need from our community about the need to edit media directly inside Tella's encrypted container.

We have secured some funding to implement editing images in android. Some months ago we added the crop and rotate functionalities and we just published a new beta that also adds the possibility to zoom and flip images: https://beta.tella-app.org/features/#edit-media. If you have any feedback about those features, we'd love to hear!

The possibility to blur faces would be a really nice add too but we would need to investigate what libraries are available for it and how much development time it would be.

Thanks so much for the request and if you have any other comment please contact us: https://tella-app.org/contact-us!
Caro