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In evidence law, digital evidence or electronic evidence is any probative information stored or transmitted in digital form that a party to a court case may use at trial. [1] Before accepting digital evidence a court will determine if the evidence is relevant, whether it is authentic, if it is hearsay and whether a copy is acceptable or the ...
Electronic evidence consists of these two sub-forms: analog (no longer so prevalent, but still existent in some sound recordings e.g), and; digital evidence (see longer article) This rather complex relationship can be depicted graphically as shown in this part of an EU-funded project on the topic embedded here at the right.
The Evidence is looked at in context. Correlation analysis or contextual analysis to extract structured information relevant to the case. Structuring the data along a timeline or clustered by topic is common. For example, one can arrange evidence by how it relates members of a group as a form of social network analysis.
The term native files refers to user-created documents, which could be in Microsoft Office or OpenDocument file formats as well as other files stored on computer, but could include video surveillance footage saved on a computer hard drive, computer-aided design files such as blueprints or maps, digital photographs, scanned images, archive files, e-mail, and digital audio files, among other data.
Since 2000, in response to the need for standardization, various bodies and agencies have published guidelines for digital forensics. The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) produced a 2002 paper, Best practices for Computer Forensics, this was followed, in 2005, by the publication of an ISO standard (ISO 17025, General requirements for the competence of testing and ...
Chain of custody (CoC), in legal contexts, is the chronological documentation or paper trail that records the sequence of custody, control, transfer, analysis, and disposition of materials, including physical or electronic evidence.
An electronic portfolio (also known as a digital portfolio, online portfolio, e-portfolio, e-folio, or eFolio) [1] is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually but not only on the Web (online portfolio). Such electronic evidence may include input text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog entries, and ...
This infrastructure is usually designed to allow parties, participants and other stakeholders to better operate some administrative and procedural aspects of the court’s functions, such as presenting evidence, filing judicial records (electronic court filing) or receiving testimony remotely.