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Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices?

Posted by Soulskill on from the where-are-you-planning-on-driving-exactly dept.

Ransak writes "As we hear more and more about dashboard cameras catching unplanned events, I've thought of equipping my vehicles with them just in case that 'one in a billion' moment happens. But given the level of overreach law enforcement has shown, I'd only consider one if I could be assured that the data was secure from prying eyes (e.g., a camera that writes to encrypted SD memory). Are there any solutions for the niche market of the paranoid photographer/videographer?"

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  1. Re:Doesn't Help In The UK by hawguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the UK you are required to decrypt files that may contain evidence of a crime under the RIP act.

    That's why you have two decryption keys - one that decyrpts the actual video, and one that decrypts a stream of LOLcats videos. Then you say "Oh noes! My wife must have recorded LOLcats on here!".

  2. Re:This solves what? by Tastecicles · · Score: 3, Funny

    ok.
    1. The Police can, sans warrant, only seize items that are reasonably thought to have been used in the COMMISSION OF A CRIME. For example, firearms.
    2. The Police have NO RIGHT to take private property just because they want to.
    3. "Just Cause" is NOT a justification for seizure.
    4. The Police have NO RIGHT to demand that you incriminate yourself by turning over materials. EVER.
    5. The Police have NO RIGHT to search you or your property for evidence without a specified WARRANT. PERIOD.

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