I mean, we know they can be used as evidence against you, but what if I was actually just chilling and watching Youtube videos at home? Can my spying piece of shit phone ironically save me? 🤔

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      21 hours ago

      Soon it might actually become the lesser evil, considering the possibility of deepfakes.

      Evidence trustworthiness would be like (from least to most trustworthy):

      • Photo/Audio Evidence
      • Video Evidence
      • Eyewitness testimony
      • Eyewitness testimony + the witness was also also recording it at the time
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        21 hours ago

        Ahem.

        • Photo / audio / video evidence.
        • Eyewitness testimony

        That the eyewitness was also recording does nothing to change veracity, those are still photo / audio / video and can thus be faked.

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          Its more like defence against misremembering/misidentifying rather than outright lying. If a witness intends to lie, then like the video portion doesn’t really matter, because neither could be trusted in that case.