Digital Forensics - Flinders Law Public Lecture

It was an honour to present the Flinders Law Public Lecture recently on “Digital Forensics: Challenges and Future” together with Professor Adrian Linacre, Chair in Forensic DNA Technology, Flinders University.

Recent cases in Australia and internationally demonstrate that digital evidence continues to present challenges at the pre-trial stage and also to raise admissibility concerns at trial. Most importantly, the role of expert evidence (and the increasing role of digital experts) has been paramount. Digital forensic evidence and expert evidence face a trio of challenges: their “leading-edge” nature, the inherent complexity of the characteristics of digital evidence and the technical diversity of the sciences which underpin their specialised knowledge base. The Lecture identified that future developments will include issues arising from Australia’s international cybercrime obligations, cloud computing, cybersecurity and human rights (principally privacy).