Digital forensics expert & expert witness · The Forbes digital forensics columnist
Digital forensics is the only reliable answer to deepfakes—it's also being weaponized to drive litigation costs.
Google moved Location History to users' phones in 2024, ending the geofence pipeline. The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on a case from before the cutover.
The Judicial AI Consortium is free, judges-only, and run by three sitting judges. About 200 have joined. The evidence landing in courtrooms says that is not enough.
Class members whose Social Security numbers were exposed in the September 2024 Constar Financial Services and Empereon Marketing breach have until May 1 to file.
Read my full article at Forbes about how deepfakes and covert coaching are changing how depositions have to be run in the United States:
Former employees and dependents whose Social Security and medical data were exposed in the 2022 Tangoe breach can file for up to $5,750 before June 3, 2026.
Senator Maggie Hassan sent letters April 16 to ElevenLabs, LOVO, Speechify and VEED demanding answers on how they stop voice-clone scams as FBI reports $893M in losses.
Comcast agreed to a $117.5 million settlement after a 2023 breach exposed 35 million Xfinity customers. Eligible class members can claim up to $10,000 by Aug. 14.
Covert real-time coaching of witnesses and is now cheap, hidden and easy. Every legal proceeding that runs on live testimony is exposed.
Generative AI has opened medical record forgery to a much wider pool of bad actors. Defense requires layers—AI, human in the loop, and digital forensics.
Berkeley's Hany Farid says humans can barely spot AI-generated content. Every court, claim file and contract that depends on human judgment needs a backup plan.
The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from an iPhone in a recent federal case. Signal's encryption was not broken. Here is what actually happened, and why the data was still on the phone.In a federal terrorism case in Texas, the FBI pulled incoming Signal messages off a defendant's iPhone after
