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by zorrobyte 1084 days ago
All of your carefully curated and collected data could also be thrown out easily without a clear chain of custody, such as immediate upload in such a way that the data could not be modified and accurately timestamped. Such datastore would need to never have a data. breach or later platform flaw that would break the chain of custody.

Sleep data, etc would need to come from a certified device with possible calibration, just as people get out of traffic tickets by uncalibrated radar equipment by police. Also, just about all commercially available devices to track sleep aren't 100% accurate. GPS isn't 100% accurate and can be spoofed externally, etc.

You'd also have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the voice wasn't AI generated, that it's your voice and so on and so on.

If one has to be this paranoid, it's likely the amount of pinholes and effort you'd have to jump through for the data to be accepted in court at all is gonna be a real pain.

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> You'd also have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the voice wasn't AI generated, that it's your voice and so on and so on.

If you are a defendant in criminal court, you don't need to prove anything. Just to raise doubt and poke holes on any unjust accusation. Innocent until proven guilty implies the accusation are the ones that have to worry about being able to prove something beyond reasonable doubt, ideally.

That's a nice catch phrase. You're presumed innocent until accused. Then you're jailed until proven innocent. The burden of proof is dependent on how often your attorney plays golf with the judge.