Anonymous Camera

2020

iOS camera app that allows for real-time anonymisation of photos and videos.

iOS camera app that allows for real-time anonymisation of photos and videos.

Collection of mobile screens showing anonymised camera modes and a safety and privacy information page explaining on-device data processing.
Collection of mobile screens showing anonymised camera modes and a safety and privacy information page explaining on-device data processing.

About

Anonymous Camera is a side project designed and developed together with London-based Playground Systems in close collaboration with investigative journalists and activism groups.

Role

Product Designer & Front-End Engineer

Tooling

Swift & Figma

Recording

Talking with journalists, researchers, and activists we formulated core principles as a decision-making basis to enable our users to record anonymized:

๐Ÿฐ capturing needs to be fast

๐Ÿ›Ÿ the safest option is the default one

๐ŸŸก color indicates safety

Interview mode

Introducing a landscape mode that is crucial to a journalists workflow.

Mobile interface showing a privacy and anonymisation control panel, inspired by airline safety cards, explaining how camera data is handled.

Privacy card

Creating a feeling of trust & safety towards 'anonymous camera' was a crucial part of the experience and it was one of my main responsibilities in this project.

One source of inspiration was the airplane safety pamphlet. We created a virtual safety & privacy card, that users can always refer back to explain everything we do โ€“ or don't do โ€“ with their data.