And what will they do when the prosecutor shows a nasty pic of the victem of say domestic violence and the defending attorney comes back with a pic of the prosecutor with the same injuries to show it is in no way "proof".
With the manipulation possible it comes back to the word of the people presenting the pic that it was not altered or made up from scratch.
posted on September 4, 2002 07:18:32 AM new
That's an intellgent question. I surmize that they will have to rely upon the integrity of the police photo experts not to alter any photos that they take of the victim or crime scenes. While digital cameras will certainly take over the vast majority of the film market, I think there will always be a small and surely tiny segment of the film market for actual old-fashioned film.
How about when your digital camera has a cell phone built into it and you can snap pix and automatically send them via email to your PC? When Super-Broadband comes on us 10 years from now, a digital video camera the size of a tieclip will send live video feed via cell phone technology to your emaiol or other destination. Who will have any privacy after that?
posted on September 4, 2002 08:01:31 AM new
On the other hand a lack of privacy can be handy if YOU control it.
Picture a digital video camera in the form of a pin worn on your lapel with a wide angle lens. It would upload wireless to a remote storage. It would be pretty hard to frame you for doing something if you had a private record of everything you had done that day.
Even if you had no time stamp on it everything could be reconstructed from the scene and the angle of the sun and various clocks and even your dashboard as you drove along.
I once had two cops try to frame me for a crime and the only thing that saved my butt was that at the very moment I was supposed to be commiting this act I was sitting down to dinner with a family - not my own - who were all willing to testify from the 8 year old girl to the aged grandfather that that's where I was.
At present the shear volume of a 24 hour vieo would preclude faking the whole thing. Who knows how much longer that will last.
posted on September 4, 2002 10:24:22 AM new
The manipulation of digital images will also impact the news media. There is no way to guard against altering digital images. Even if they developed software to guard against it, there will be by-pass software just like there is for everything else.
Before it is over, juries will be watching Power Point presentations from their homes.
