> This is really clever from Apple. The journalist use case is just the PR story. This will be really useful for identity verification and insurance apps This

> This is really clever from Apple. The journalist use case is just the PR story. This will be really useful for identity verification and insurance apps This is definitely not an Apple thing, though the use profile is more ubiquitous. Canon had, more than twenty years ago, when they first started making DSLRs, the question of "If we want law enforcement to use these, how do we handle the inevitable questions?" and as a result built out the option to digitally sign the raw sensor data in-camera so the raw file could be pointed to in court with an attestation of image integrity.