Evidentiary Power and Propriety of Digital Identifiers and the Impact on Privacy Rights in the United States

Abstract

Media and network systems capture and store data about electronic activity in new, sometimes unprecedented ways; computational systems make for new means of analysis and knowledge development. These new forms offer new, powerful tactical tools for investigations of electronic malfeasance under traditional legal regulation of state power, particular that of Fourth Amendment limitations on police searches and seizures under the U.S. Constitution. But autonomy, identity and authenticity concerns with electronic data raise issues of public policy, privacy and proper police oversight of civil society. We examine those issues and their implications for digital and computational forensics

The Internet of Things and the Smart City: Legal challenges with digital forensics, privacy, and security

“…Part of the risk with digital investigations is from evolving standards of the reliability of digital evidence, such as messaging origins from IP addresses or online digital photograph authentication . Competence in digital investigations is a major concern.…”

“…Part of the risk with digital investigations is from evolving standards of the reliability of digital evidence, such as messaging origins from IP addresses or online digital photograph authentication. 5 Competence in digital investigations is a major concern. For example, in the United States a substitute seventh grade teacher faced 40 years in prison due, in part, to insufficient analysis of digital forensics evidence.…”