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Collected Item: “Hidden identity”

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Hidden identity

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Text Story, Photograph

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

In my history class we were given the task of taking an image with personal information or faces that should not be viewable. the reason that i chose this image was for a couple of reasons. One, the fact that these people are dealing with thinking that COVID is a hoax is reason enough to not want to be seen. two, there is a child in this picture that is clearly underage and this should have been blurred out no matter what due to that. I understand protesting and standing up for your rights but as soon as someone gets this information in a picture we have to make sure as an archivist that we take the proper steps to conceal peoples identities without their consent.

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#HST456 #ASU #COVID19

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive/item/15968

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Javier Mercado

Give this story a date.

2020-11-06
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