Might cause video evidence to be excluded from prosecutions
Defense attorneys can use this to exclude such video evidence. Judges likely to agree.
Such a decision wouldn't make much sense from a technical point of view, but legal minds could easily decide to impose a minimum level of IT security standards on the evidence chain. Viruses in the body cam clearly fails to meet any such standard, so toss the video out of court.
This news item could have major implications.
Small careless, non-certified manufactures may be squeezed by bigger corporations that can deal with telephone book sized specifications, and certifications to endless standards.
How long until some well-funded agency actually does manufacture video evidence to frame up their selected target? It's so "unlikely" that it would work every single time.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
