Tag: evidence

Presenting Digital Evidence that Holds up in Court

With nine out of 10 people owning a smartphone and 97% of Americans having a mobile phone of some kind—we are all leaving a digital trace.  With this inter-connectivity, it’s now nearly impossible to find a crime committed today that does not involve a digital component. And more and more, we are seeing juries expecting to hear the digital evidence in a case. […]

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EncroChat: Appeal court finds ‘digital phone tapping’ admissible in criminal trials

EncroChat

Judges have decided that communications collected by French and Dutch police from the encrypted phone network EncroChat using software “implants” are admissible evidence in British courts. […]

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Berkeley Law creates protocol to use social media as evidence for war crimes

A three-year joint effort by Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center (HRC) and the U.N. Human Rights Office, the Protocol marks the first global guidelines for using publicly available information online – including photos, videos, and other content posted to social media sites – as evidence in international criminal and human rights investigations. […]

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