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Comment on If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you?

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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’ll point out that just having videos play without interacting with the site would get undermined pretty easily. But if you were actively tapping around and deliberately interacting with the site, you’d have a stronger case that you were actually at home.

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Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sure, but I don’t know how they’d get that data. Every tap likely isn’t stored. Still, I could write a script to fake it, and build a device to to it. It’s evidence, but it isn’t particularly strong.

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- some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Major systems like YouTube generate logs. Even your Mac or PC generates copious logs. Those logs / the info will be subpoenaed. It’s easy to tell if someone was interacting with a site when you contact the people who run it.
  
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  - Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes, but not mouse movements. It’ll be things like then clicking on videos and page views. That can be automated easily.
    
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