Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by gruez 34 days ago
>If you are facing legal consequences for something, you have the constitutional right to face your accuser. Obviously that precludes any and all automated systems.

Usually they work around that issue by having a cop manually review the footage after.
1 comments
cyberge99 34 days ago
That just time shifts the incident. Is there any legal precedent for “time shifted crime” versus “innocent until caught?”
link
gruez 34 days ago
> Is there any legal precedent for “time shifted crime” versus “innocent until caught?”

Why wouldn't this work? If you robbed a house while nobody was around, and later caught you thanks to surveillance footage, do you think you'll be able to argue it doesn't count because the cop wasn't around?

link