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Ask Slashdot: Encrypted Digital Camera/Recording Devices?
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?"
Get an eye-fi SD car for $50.
It transfers your photos/video from your camera to your laptop/tablet/smartphone and then deletes it from its local storage.
So you can show an empty SD card. And your laptop/tablet/smartphone is password protected and/or encrypted.
My God can beat up your God. Just kidding...don't take offense. I know there's no God.
He doesn't throw the card away. The "prying eyes" do. If his car gets searched and they confiscate the contents of his car. It's very easy for an SD card to go missing or get formatted.
Presumably you would have to enter your passphrase before recording can commence. Thus, you enter the passphrase before backing out of the driveway. With a "carputer" you may be able to enter the passphrase over bluetooth or wifi from your smartphone.
Though a small screen with some beeps reminding you to enter the passphrase each time the car was turned on would help you do it every time. Might have BT turned off on your phone and thus not get the notification.
Who wants to enter a 20 character password every time you start your car? Just use public key cryptography to encrypt the data in the car, and keep your private key somewhere safe where you can decrypt the video.
11th circuit court of appeals ruled that you *CANNOT* compel somebody to decrypt their HD.
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5. The Police have NO RIGHT to search you or your property for evidence without a specified WARRANT. PERIOD.
You seem to be misinformed. They can search your vehicle during a traffic stop if they have probable cause. This can also be grounds for forcibly entering you home if they have cause to believe you are holding someone hostage, etc. Unfortunately probable cause can be very easy to abuse.
The you have even worse abuses such as the NYC stop and frisk law
Police routinely destroy, delete, edit and/or obfuscate footage when it shows them in an "unflattering" light, why do you expect everyday citizens to turn over evidence against themselves when the police fail to do the same?
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=708&sid=1938732
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=12951588
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=428&sid=1116072
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/05/birmingham_police_beating_vide_3.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmXTFr5hoOo
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/03/fort-worth-justice-says-traffic-stop.html
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/hollywood/sfl-hollywood-cops-fake-report-b072809,0,350771.story
"Also, in some states it is a crime to record an on-duty police officer without their permission."
No, it isn't.
This has been tried in a relatively few states, and while at first some judges were cooperative with the police, eventually in every state where it has been tried so far it has been thrown out of court.
It is now a pretty well-established principle that if something is occurring in public, you can film it. Even if it's cops doing it. Almost anything that occurs on the street, in fact, plus anywhere else public. Even backcountry roads.
People have a RIGHT to film the police doing their taxpayer-funded jobs in public. Period.
Recently some cops tried a new twist on this idea. They claimed that filming was okay, but that recording audio at the same time was "illegal surveillance" under their states' "all-party consent" law. (I.e., in some states, all parties have to consent before a phone conversation, for example, can be legally recorded.)
That didn't stand up in court, either.