Digital Evidence Database

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  • A Beginner’s Guide To Flight Tracking

    Institution

    Bellingcat

    Language

    English

    Publication date
    2019-10-15

    Reference link
    https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/10/15/a-beginners-guide-to-flight-tracking/
    Executive summary
    n/a
    Purpose
    The purpose of this guide is to provide a quick and complete guidance on how to start tracking flights.
    Description
    The guide starts with a glosary of terms needed to start tracking flights. It then provides some of the most popular flight tracking websites available and outlines some of their features. Finally, the guide concludes with a case study demonstrating how these tools can be used in conjunction with one another to shed light on the air movements of the powerful.
    Target group
    Open source researchers and investigators

  • A Beginner’s Guide to Geolocating Videos

    Institution

    Bellingcat

    Language

    English

    Publication date
    2014-07-09

    Reference link
    https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2014/07/09/a-beginners-guide-to-geolocation/
    Executive summary
    n/a
    Purpose
    To facilitate the task of geolocating videos.
    Description
    The document explains some of the techniques used to identify the location of videos using the information therein, using tools available to anyone with a internet connection.
    Target group
    Open source researchers and investigators

  • A Handbook on Assisting International Criminal investigations

    Institution

    Swedish National Defence College

    Language

    English

    Reference link
    https://fba.se/contentassets/6f4962727ea34af5940fa8c448f3d30f/handbook-on-assisting-international-criminal-investigations.pdf
    Executive summary
    n/a
    Purpose
    The ambition of this handbook is to provide practical guidance to lay persons who are in areas where they might receive or collect information that may assist investigations into international crimes. The guidance offered in this handbook is intended to enable lay persons to assist the professional staff of international criminal courts and tribunals, and not to transform lay persons into criminal investigators or analysts.
    Description
    The guide contains guiding principles of observation and information collection, collecting information and evidence section, as well as a section on dealing with witnesses.
    Target group
    Civilian or military actors deployed to conflict and post-conflict zones as part of national or multinational missions or for other reasons

  • A Simplified Guide To Forensic Audio and Video Analysis

    Institution

    Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) (US Dpt of Justice)

    Language

    English

    Reference link
    http://www.forensicsciencesimplified.org/av/AudioVideo.pdf
    Executive summary
    n/a
    Purpose
    The purpose of the guidelines is to provide the most useful information when exploring the issue of audio-video evidence and its usage for the investigation purposes.
    Description
    This document contais a simplified and basic guidance on usage of video and audio recordings and assist in an investigation. It describes the principles of forensic audio and video analysis, including repair and recovery of evidence, evidence enhancement techniques. It further looks as to when and why is the audio-video evidence used (focusing on corraboration, and identification of suspects, in particular), and how is this evidence analysed.
    Target group
    Forensic experts, investigators and analysts

  • A Simplified Guide to Digital Evidence

    Institution

    Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) (US Dpt of Justice)

    Language

    English

    Reference link
    http://www.forensicsciencesimplified.org/digital/DigitalEvidence.pdf
    Executive summary
    n/a
    Purpose
    The purpose of the guideline is to give an overview on the following issues: the principles of digital evidence, a short description as to why and when is digital evidence used, what information can be gathered digitally, who conducts the analysis of the digital evidence (with reference links), how is evidence collected. The guidelines also contacts a brief FAQs, including quality control and assurance performance (and minimum requirements standard). It also obtains common terms, resources adn references, as well as section on forensic evidence admissibility adn expert witnesses (the Frey standard, Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 702, the Daubert standard), and a section on who can serve as an expert forensic science witness at court.
    Description
    This document contains a simplified and basic guidance on the meaning and sources of digital evidence, relevance and usage of digital evidence, how to collect, analyze and use digital evidence as well as the limitations of digital evidence.
    Target group
    Investigators and first responders

  • ACPO Good Practice Guide for Computer based Electronic Evidence

    Institution

    Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)

    Language

    English

    Publication date
    2003-10-01

    Reference link
    https://cryptome.org/acpo-guide.htm
    Purpose
    "Details in this guide are designed to ensure good practice when collecting computer based electronic evidence; guidelines are not intended for use when dealing with evidence produced by witnesses from third party computer systems."
    Description
    The guide is not intended as a definitive manual of every operation during the investigation of a high tech crime or recovery of computer based electronic evidence. It provides guidance on the most common circumstances when computer-based and mobile phones evidence is involved. The document includes the principles of computer-based electronic evidence, guidance concerning the handling, retrieval and transport. It also sets out practices concerning the investigating personnel, interviews, retention, storage, evidence recovery and disclosure. Lastly, it addresses on welfare and health and safety considerations. The document also includes a glossary.
    Target group
    Personnel attending crime scenes or making initial contact with a victim; Investigators; Evidence recovery staff; External consulting witnesses

  • ACPO Good Practice Guide for Digital Evidence

    Institution

    Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)

    Language

    English

    Publication date
    2012-03-01

    Reference link
    https://www.digital-detective.net/digital-forensics-documents/ACPO_Good_Practice_Guide_for_Digital_Evidence_v5.pdf
    Executive summary
    n/a
    Purpose
    The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to assist law enforcement and all others that assist in investigating cyber security incidents and crime.
    Description
    This document provides an overview of computer based electronic investigations, with emphasis on the types of crimes scenes, types of networks and technology and how to perform network forensics. The guide includes principles of digital evidence and their explanation, location of digital evidence, seizure of electronic evidence, proportionality issues relating to seizure, preparation before and after capturing digital evidence, analyses of seized digital evidence, interpretation of digital data, communication of digital evidence, verbal feedback, how to make statements or reports on digital evidence, witness evidence, training and education of digital evidence, welfare of staff working on digital evidence and disclosure.
    Target group
    UK law enforcement personnel who may deal with digital evidence. This will include: - Persons who are involved in the securing, seizing and transporting of equipment from search scenes with a view to recovering digital evidence, as well as in the identification of the digital information needed to investigate crime; - Investigators who plan and manage the identification, presentation and storage of digital evidence, and the use of that evidence; - Persons who recover and reproduce seized digital evidence and are trained to carry out the function and have relevant training to give evidence in court of their actions. - Persons who are involved in the selection and management of persons who may be required to assist in the recovery, identification and interpretation of digital evidence.

  • Advanced Guide on Verifying Video Content

    Institution

    Bellingcat

    Language

    English

    Publication date
    2017-06-30

    Reference link
    https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2017/06/30/advanced-guide-verifying-video-content/
    Executive summary
    n/a
    Purpose
    To provide advice on the verification of video content, most often found on social networks and file sharing platforms.
    Description
    The guide includes practical tactics frequently used by the Bellingcat team. It makes an effort to provide readers with ways to work around the limitations of the available tools. In addition to promoting tools, it also expects to bolster creativity in avoiding dead ends. It includes instructions on how to use tools such as reverse image search.
    Target group
    Open source investigators and journalists

  • Annex 1: Technical protocol for the provision of evidence, material witness and victims information in electronic form for their presentation during the Trial

    Institution

    International Criminal Court (ICC)

    Language

    English

    Reference link
    https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f17274
    Purpose
    This protocol is designed to ensure that all the necessary information is available electronically during the proceedings to the Court. It provides a standard-setting for the court-participants.
    Description
    The document is an annex to the decision of the Court in the case of The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.
    Target group
    lawyers and practitioners, especially practicing before the court

  • Automated Reverse Image Search Part 2: Vimeo

    Institution

    Bellingcat

    Language

    English

    Publication date
    2016-04-12

    Reference link
    https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2016/04/12/automated-reverse-image-search-part-2-vimeo/
    Executive summary
    n/a
    Purpose
    To provide assistance in identifying the upload information of a video.
    Description
    The guide covers how to use TinEye API for Vimeo to retrieve the location of the preview image, and to submit it to TinEye for reverse searching. It seeks to assist in determining the video is brand new or something that has been reposted from an earlier point in time.
    Target group
    Open source researchers and investigators

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