Why This Ex-White House Tech Honcho Is Now Working On Human Rights

For Nicole Wong, the White House's ex-deputy CTO and Google's former counsel, human rights video work is the next challenge.

When musician Peter Gabriel formed the nonprofit organization Witness in 1992 to help activists use video for human rights work, the world was a much different place. The Internet was still largely restricted to computer labs, camcorders were still a middle-class status symbol, and YouTube wasn't even a blip on the horizon. Now, of course, the world is much different. Witness grew over the years, became a much larger organization than the one Gabriel first launched, and is finding themselves dealing with a newer challenge: how to verify the flood of video content uploaded to the Internet.

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