I haven’t watermarked anyone’s private videos, but I can see why you might have understood this from this post.

The only videos I have watermarked came from corporate YouTube accounts: the Concordia video of Alexander Nix’ talk at the Concordia Summit (which was also livestreamed and had hundreds of people in attendance live), and the ASI Data Science video of Jack Hansom’s talk (which had dozens of people in attendance live). These videos have been talked about in hundreds of news articles for the first, and one Guardian article for the second (where it is even part of the story that the video was taken down, and the Guardian recontacted me to ask if I had saved a copy before publishing their article).

Indeed I have also looked at Eyal Kazin’s videos off his YouTube account, where they are posted publicly. In actuality, I found the account because Kazin announces his videos from his Twitter account. One of those videos was of a comedy routine at a CA/SCL work event (that’s the screenshot heading this post), and was reported about in the New York Times. It was also later taken down. I have not posted it publicly, but make a copy available to journalists.

The other videos I have looked at are more difficult to categorize. On a yearly basis, Kazin likes to compile them based on footage of 2 seconds per day. Some days he films stuff at home, some days he films stuff at work. They are valuable from a journalistic standpoint in determining the staffing of SCL/CA, what they do, etc. To help with this, I have indeed written notes of their content for the days where they were filmed at work/with colleagues.

[For the record, I am not a privacy advocate as much as I am a data protection advocate. I see subtle differences between the two, that can indeed come into conflict for cases such as this one.]