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The use of digital forensics in investigating and prosecuting cases involving illicit material, including the analysis of metadata, browser caches, and download artifacts.
Law enforcement uses subpoenas and warrants to compel ISPs and online platforms to produce IP logs and subscriber records, turning raw connection data into investigatory leads that can justify searche...
Defense teams have repeatedly succeeded in suppressing digital CSAM evidence by attacking the legality and technical reliability of how data was seized, preserved and analyzed—most often through motio...
ICAC investigations into distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) have no single fixed duration: some leads are triaged in under a day while full investigations that require digital forensic...
Courts separate accidental viewing from intentional possession by probing whether the defendant exercised control, had knowledge of the illicit material, and took affirmative steps beyond mere exposur...
Verification of audio testimony circulated on social media is constrained by authentication requirements, platform vulnerabilities, and evidentiary rules that demand “confirming circumstances” beyond ...
Resource disparities across states meaningfully shape how quickly ICAC investigations proceed and how they resolve: better-funded jurisdictions report larger investigative teams, more specialized digi...
Journalists and researchers can treat audio posted on platforms like Substack as user‑generated evidence requiring the same forensic rigor applied in legal contexts: preserve originals, run file‑struc...
Social‑media content now sits alongside DNA, witnesses and medical records as one of the practical tools investigators and lawyers use to verify historic abuse, with verification methods ranging from ...
Users can reduce what Gboard shares with Google by turning off telemetry and deleting learned data in the app and Android settings, but there is evidence that Gboard stores typing-related data locally...
Mere online access to an image can in some circumstances be charged as possession of illegal content, because U.S. federal statutes and many state laws treat electronic receipt, storage, or “accessing...