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CCTV Footage of Kampala Hotel Where Finnish Businessman Died Was Doctored

posted by janrinok on Saturday March 10 2018, @12:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the that-didn't-take-long dept.

canopic jug writes:

Clearly forged video footage was submitted as evidence recently regarding an international crime investigation. The forgery was detected because it not smoothly done. But that is changing. So while the countries involved might seem out of the way, recent news about algorithm-enhanced falsified video footage and the social and legal repercussions of realistic but completely fabricated videos make this kind of a warning shot for the admissibility of recordings in general.

Regarding the particular case in question and the forged video, YLE reports:

Aliganyira said that local police were using doctored footage which contained "insertions, removal of images, creating someone to look like [the victim] yet it wasn't him."

Earlier, The Daily Monitor had reported on the footage.

The Internal Security Organisation (ISO) on Tuesday said the footage that is currently in the hands of security and intelligence agencies on the death of the Finnish national who died at Pearl of Hotel on February 6, in Kampala was manipulated.

Already, realistic voice forgery can be done affordably. Soon video capabilities will be realistic enough to cause real difficulties. Then investigations will depend even more so on advanced forensics, if audio and video are even still admissible. Realistic forgeries also allow real snakes to stir up denials and long delays when real evidence is produced by asserting that it is "fake news".

Sources :
Fake video? New twist in case of Finnish businessman's death in Uganda. .
CCTV footage of Kampala hotel where Finnish businessman died was doctored, says ISO. Daily Monitor.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Arik on Saturday March 10 2018, @03:26PM (2 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday March 10 2018, @03:26PM (#650528) Journal
    Perhaps they'll have people that can testify to the validity of their records, that the recording being submitted has been in continuous custody of the department and was at no point tampered with. Just like they (are supposed to) have today.

    At no point that I am aware of has even the most credulous and inane US court accepted the naive notion that video cannot be altered. Courts are quite familiar with the notion of doctored evidence, and nothing is just presumed valid on its face without testimony to make it admissible. Meaning you typically don't even get to show the court a videotape until after you bring in the witness who says 'I was sitting in the chair watching the monitor at that particular time and place and this is what I saw, and yes there is a videotape available' or something to that effect.

    Police investigators, of course, may be desperately eager to look at anything that might be relevant, but just because they look at it doesn't mean it ever makes it to court.
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  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:29PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:29PM (#650545) Journal

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @04:41PM (#650551)

    There's no saying how far off we are from being able to seamlessly doctor footage to make eyewitnesses to the recording unreliable as well. With the poor security of pretty much everything nowadays, maybe bank robberies will stay becoming popular again.