Digital forensics expert & expert witness · The Forbes digital forensics columnist
How artificial intelligence changes what counts as proof. AI-generated evidence, authentication, expert testimony and the court decisions setting the rules.
Fake text messages are showing up in workplace investigations, and real messages could be denied as deepfakes. In this video: why the receipts that used to settle misconduct cases stopped settling anything, and what proof looks like now.
Can a screenshot still prove workplace harassment? A digital forensics expert on why cases that never needed forensics now depend on the device behind the message.
Digital evidence authentication faces a growing crisis as metadata, once a key indicator, proves increasingly unreliable.
Metadata was never proof. It is an envelope written in pencil, and every new app and upload pipeline hands someone else an eraser.
"It wasn't me. My AI did it." That defense is coming, and the way AI agents work right now, it might hold up. Ovie Carroll, SANS instructor and career federal cybercrime investigator, ran the test that shows why: an AI agent edited a Word document and left none of the records that usually show a per
'It wasn't me. The agent did it.' AI agents can use a computer like a ghost or just like you. A digital forensics expert on proving whether you or the AI touched the file.
A police officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidence. The deeper problem is that no one kept the original recording to catch it. Here is the fix.
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.
Read my full article at Forbes about how deepfakes and covert coaching are changing how depositions have to be run in the United States:
Covert real-time coaching of witnesses and is now cheap, hidden and easy. Every legal proceeding that runs on live testimony is exposed.
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