About Obscura v1


Obscura v1 is our first public release from the Secure Smart Cam Project. This an open-source collaboration between the Guardian Project and Witness to develop new visual media software for human rights.

Please review our Terms of Use and our Source Code License. The entire source code of this app is available on Github.

The app currently supports:

  • taking a new picture or loading an existing photo from the Gallery app
  • removal of all EXIF image metadata from the photo
  • blur, pixelize, redact/remove or overlay mask to protect identity of people or places in the photos
  • save as a JPEG to the sdcard
  • share to other apps (twitter, text message, facebook, dropbox, etc)