Our audiences deserve to know not just what we know, but how we know it. Using the #C2PA standard, BBC News is leading the way with a brand new feature to securely show how how we check and verify the material we use. Read more here: https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2024/content-credentials/
The BBC News Verify team has published their first article using a new open media provenance technology called C2PA that we've been working on for the past three years.
This shows where media comes from and how it’s been edited - like an audit trail or a history.
New technology to show why images and video are genuine launches on BBC News.
‘Content credentials’ feature means visitors to the BBC News site will now see a ‘how we verified this’ button underneath images and videos on BBC Verify content.
I feel the "No, because corporate lock-in!" argument hasn't been taken seriously enough.
#C2PA is targeting media, not just photos. That means that #CAs are becoming key for proving provenance.
So far, I haven't seen comments on whether we'll have a publicly available, free C2PA CA, analogous to "Let's encrypt", that will be accepted by software checking / creating the signatures
Just stating the spec is open does not resolve this issue.
Interesting: Leica ships the first commercial-off-the-shelf camera that comes with C2PA which (in theory, infrastructure not quite here yet) should allow publications to prove provenance and processing steps from camera to Web server for anything they publish, and allow viewers to be confident they’re not looking at a deepfake.
Here's a little toot stream preview of our RightsCon Session "Fortifying Community Truth
in the Age of Synthetic Media" that Community Leader Fabby will be participating in next week... #rightscon#proofmode@witnessorg
@n8fr8 Are there any precautions taken against #C2PA becoming dependent on a paid-for infrastructure. like basic, trustworthy digital #timestamping became dependent on it? Can there be an open and free & libre #infrastructure, accessible to everybody, backing C2PA?