The Need for Open-Source Blockchain-Based Police Bodycams
Transparency must be treated as a fundamental pillar of our justice system.
Police bodycams are an essential piece of equipment for modern law enforcement. The evidence contained on these cameras can be the difference between someone spending the rest of their life in jail or walking out of the courtroom a free man. The authenticity of bodycam videos must be protected to the highest possible degree.
The importance of the videos is unquestionable, but is the threat of video alteration real? Very.
Researchers have found that bodycam videos are vulnerable to undetectable alteration, and malware has been found on shipped bodycams. Police departments have also been caught editing bodycam videos to skew the narrative in their favour.
This isn’t remote speculation, it’s already a serious problem.
To combat the problem, some bodycam manufacturers are teaming up with camera component manufacturers to develop more advanced digital fingerprinting technology. This works by embedding markers directly into the video feed as it comes out of the…
