alt Hacker NewsOr perhaps the standards of evidence established for a pre-industrial society when eye-witness testimony was the best that could reasonably be achieved is not necessarily the optimal system for a digital society where everyone carries a high definition video camera in their pocket at all times.
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broken-kebab • yesterday at 2:00 PM
But in what way do you believe these standards are inadequate? Video from phones is used in courts when available and admissible.
expedition32 • yesterday at 3:33 AM
This is why crimes used to have prosecution time limits. Nobody expected eye witness accounts to surface after 40 years. But DNA is eternal.
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Yes a high definition video camera that is slowly becoming indistinguishable (and has always been subject to tampering regardless) from an artificially generated version. We never have anything beyond judgement.