Introducing Project Providence
Project providence is a new technology, developed by Truepic and Microsoft, that provides a way to validate the authenticity of a piece of media from the moment of capture until viewing. Providence increases trust in digital images and videos, helps fight against deepfakes and manipulated media, and adds a layer of accountability by rebutting accusations of false or manipulated digital content.
What is Project Providence?
Microsoft and Truepic are working together to launch “Project Providence,” the world’s first interoperable image authentication platform. The Project Providence platform uses Truepic’s authenticating camera SDK and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform to produce the first interoperable system that captures and maintains the provenance or origin of images captured, from storage to display. This enables users to verify images as authentic (taken by who claimed to have taken them without modification) and transparently display their time, date, location, and source to viewers. With this technology, modifications to the images can always be forensically detected and the authentic source of images can be proven.
FAQs
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Provenance refers to the basic, trustworthy facts about the origins of a piece of digital content (image, video, audio recording, document). It may include information such as who created it and how, when, and where it was created or edited.
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C2PA is the expert body setting open standards around media provenance.
The coalition is a Joint Development Foundation project to collectively build an end-to-end open technical standard to provide publishers, creators, and consumers with opt-in, flexible ways to understand the authenticity and provenance of different types of media.
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Not right now. Providence is currently in a proof-of-concept phase for limited use cases. If you think you have a compelling use case for project providence and media provenance and would be interested in a pilot project, please reach out using the form at the bottom of this page.
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Project Providence is a partnership between Truepic and Microsoft (Democracy Forward team & Microsoft Azure Engineering). Many thanks to our co-development partners, InfernoRed Technology.
Our initial pilot project was to support the Anti-Corruption Headquarters in Ukraine.
March 27 - Announcement Press Release
Project Providence is honored to help support a nonprofit documentation cultural heritage destruction and recovery activities in Ukraine. Read more at the link below.
Providence Pilot Partners
Microsoft
Anti-Corruption Headquarters
Truepic
“Project Providence is helping ensure that [Digital Documentation] efforts will not be undermined with accusations of being false, manipulated, or deepfakes at any time moving forward. This trend, known as the Liar’s Dividend, is a great threat to all documentation.”
— Jeff McGregor, CEO, Truepic
Questions? Please reach out.
Contact the team with questions by filling out our contact form, linked here.