Obscura: The Instagram for Censorship
In the case that you, or your mother, have not already shared every last personal detail of your life on the Facebook already, please be informed that it will happen - nudie pics and all.
Released at the end of August and available for both Android and iPhone, the Obscura Cam app, in much the same way as Instagram makes it easy to add visual effects to your photos, allows users to easily obscure and censor their photos with the cliche black box, the anonymous blur, or the ever-pixelated kaleidoscope effects.
Where in the past your mother would have gotten a swift boot from the Facebook for posting those naked baby photos of you, she can now feel free to expose the smooth skin that once belonged to you without having to risk membership to the club that affords her both continual access to her friends as well as her virtual farm.
Seriousness aside, Obscura is a cool app. I’m not sure I would play it off as a way to “legally” share digital versions of a less clothed self in the way that other reviewers have done. Rather, this app seems to be just another weapon in the citizen journalists arsenal so that they can observe, snap, and safely report recent sitings of the neighborhood streaker. Additionally, celebrities, athletes, and politicians may prefer to use the app preemptively - so that, when their nakie pics leak to the press all of the difficult censorship work is done. Just a thought, is all…
