How To Save Text Messages For Court? Turn The Phone OffWhat is the best way to save text messages for court? A digital forensics expert says move to a new phone, then power the old one off and leave it off. Oct 08 26October 08, 2026Article at Forbes
Expert Witness Asked ChatGPT To Show 0% Fault—The Wrong Way For Experts To Use AIAn expert witness asked ChatGPT to show the company was "0% at fault" in a deadly Houston explosion case. The prompts came out at trial and show experts how not to use AI. Aug 26 26August 26, 2026Article at Forbes
Brett Shavers And Magnet Forensics Ask Where Digital Investigations Break Down—AI Makes The Answers UrgentWhen people far from casework decide how digital forensics gets done, the errors land on defendants and victims. A veteran digital forensics examiner is pushing back. Aug 13 26August 13, 2026Article at Forbes
Google And Meta Shipped AI Tools That Fake Evidence—Then Pulled Them Days LaterFor one day in late July, anyone could type a sentence into Google Earth and get a fake satellite image rendered on top of Google's real imagery of a real place. Researchers made a nuclear plant in Iran and a bomb crater at a Gaza hospital within… Aug 11 26August 11, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Google And Meta Shipped AI Tools That Fake Evidence—Then Pulled Them Days LaterGoogle pulled AI image generation from Google Earth one day after launch because of fraud concerns. A digital forensics expert on what happens next. Aug 11 26August 11, 2026Article at Forbes
Fake Text Messages At Work: Why Misconduct Cases Now Need Digital Forensics Because of DeepfakesFake text messages are showing up in workplace investigations, and real messages could be denied as deepfakes. In this video: why the receipts that used to settle misconduct cases stopped settling anything, and what proof looks like now.Employment… Jul 29 26July 29, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Fake Text Messages In Workplace Investigations—Why Misconduct Cases Now Need Digital ForensicsCan a screenshot still prove workplace harassment? A digital forensics expert on why cases that never needed forensics now depend on the device behind the message. Jul 28 26July 28, 2026Article at Forbes
5 Reasons Metadata Can’t Prove Your Photo—Or Any File—Is RealDigital evidence authentication faces a growing crisis as metadata, once a key indicator, proves increasingly unreliable. While metadata provides information like creation date and location, it's easily altered on phones or with free tools. Innocent… Jul 17 26July 17, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Screenshots of text messages are easy to fake.Text message screenshots are unreliable as legal evidence. Easily faked even before generative AI. A screenshot is merely a picture of pixels, lacking the verifiable data found in a smartphone's internal database, which holds critical forensic… Jul 17 26July 17, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Message Screenshots Are Terrible Evidence—Courts Accept Them AnywayA digital forensics expert on why screenshots of text messages prove almost nothing, what carrier records and backups miss and when only the smartphone can answer. Jul 15 26July 15, 2026Article at Forbes
5 Reasons Metadata Can’t Prove Your Photo—Or Any File—Is RealMetadata was never proof. It is an envelope written in pencil, and every new app and upload pipeline hands someone else an eraser. Jul 15 26July 15, 2026Article at Forbes
AI Is Writing Police Evidence—And The Original Is VanishingA police officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidence. The deeper problem is that no one kept the original recording to catch it. Here is the fix. Jun 15 26June 15, 2026Article at Forbes
A Confidential Informant's Deepfake Indicted An Innocent PersonHow did a deepfake indict an innocent person in federal court without anyone catching it? The first federal survey of judges on deepfake challenges just dropped. May 14 26May 14, 2026Article at Forbes
Digital Forensics Is the Only Sure Answer to Deepfakes. It's Also the Liar's Dividend's Second PayoutDigital forensics is the only reliable answer to deepfakes—it's also being weaponized to drive litigation costs. Apr 30 26April 30, 2026Article at Forbes
Real-time secret courtroom coaching is here, but depositions are the real risk.Read my full article at Forbes about how deepfakes and covert coaching are changing how depositions have to be run in the United… Apr 20 26April 20, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Covert Real-Time Coaching Has Hit The Courtroom—But Depositions Are The Real Soft TargetsCovert real-time coaching of witnesses and is now cheap, hidden and easy. Every legal proceeding that runs on live testimony is exposed. Apr 16 26April 16, 2026Article at Forbes
Deepfakes could break overworked and underfunded public defenders.Deepfakes are already reaching U.S. courtrooms. And in the deepfake era, proving a piece of digital evidence is real often requires specialized forensic experts that public defenders rarely have the funding to bring in. That gap may become the gap… Apr 06 26April 06, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Deepfakes Could Break Overworked, Underfunded Public DefendersIn the deepfake era, proving digital evidence is real requires experts public defenders cannot afford. Their indigent clients are the ones who will pay. Apr 06 26April 06, 2026Article at Forbes
Facial Recognition Angela LippsPolice jailed an innocent woman for five months on a bogus AI hashtag#FacialRecognition match. In this case, the real failure is human, not machine.#digitalforensics #larsdaniel #cellphoneforensics hashtag #teamrimkus #facialrecognition… Apr 01 26April 01, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Woman Wrongfully Jailed 5 Months After AI Facial Recognition ErrorPolice jailed a woman for five months based on an inaccurate AI facial recognition match. Here's how the technology works and why the real failure is human, not machine. Apr 01 26April 01, 2026Article at Forbes
