How police can trace photos back to your camera
-
Forensic experts have long been able to match a series of prints to the hand that left them, or a bullet to the gun that fired it. Now, the same thing is being done with the photos taken by digital cameras, and is ushering in a new era of digital crime fighting.
Sounds real accurate: "...researchers were able to match a photo with a specific person 56 per cent of the time..."
-
Forensic experts have long been able to match a series of prints to the hand that left them, or a bullet to the gun that fired it. Now, the same thing is being done with the photos taken by digital cameras, and is ushering in a new era of digital crime fighting.
Sounds real accurate: "...researchers were able to match a photo with a specific person 56 per cent of the time..."
-
What's really sad about this article is that they tested the pictures from only 10 people, not a very representative sample size. X|
The worse thing is that the method will be applied, regardless how bad it is, and ... bad luck for you once you were wrongly identified. Remember that ten-year old boy who was suspected (based on a DNA analysis) to have been involved in an IRA attack several years before he was born? Or the "phantom" who was involved in dozens of unrelated crimes throughout Germany and Austria (who eventually was identified as a staff member of the company providing the DNA tests)? Greetings from Kafka.
-
Forensic experts have long been able to match a series of prints to the hand that left them, or a bullet to the gun that fired it. Now, the same thing is being done with the photos taken by digital cameras, and is ushering in a new era of digital crime fighting.
Sounds real accurate: "...researchers were able to match a photo with a specific person 56 per cent of the time..."
Hmm, seems like a place where technology can be used to anonymize pictures to prevent such matching. I feel an app coming on...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein