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How do you hold people accountable for bad behavior (e.g. police behaving poorly when making an arrest or traffic stop) when the video evidence is viewed as "ea
by gknoy 9y ago
How do you hold people accountable for bad behavior (e.g. police behaving poorly when making an arrest or traffic stop) when the video evidence is viewed as "easily faked"? I mean, eyewitness testimony has been proven many times to be faulty, but presumably someone with an axe to grind (and some AWS credits?) could make fake videos of all sorts of bad things _from multiple perspectives_.
Scary indeed.
- Chaebixi 9y agoWell in the police conduct case, if they're wearing a body camera, you can still have a properly-documented chain-of-custody backing up the photo evidence. We've had good technology for the forgery of printed documents for a long time, and the world hasn't ended.
- Angostura 9y agoCameras that digitally sign each frame?
- PeterisP 9y agoAll that does is link that frame to [a key in] the particular camera. It doesn't verify that the frame was "real" in some way. It defends whoever controls [the key in] that camera from others secretly tampering with that frame afterwards, but it doesn't defend others from tampering by whoever controls [the key in] that camera. Central signature verification or blockchain could verify a timestamp - i.e. prove that the frame was taken (or maliciously created) before a particular time. That's about it.