Privacy in UK police digital forensics investigations
Schaik, Paul van and Irons, Alastair and Renaud, Karen (2024) Privacy in UK police digital forensics investigations. In: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2024-01-03 - 2024-01-06, Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort.
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Abstract
Background: Privacy is a human right, but what happens when a person’s privacy rights encounter legitimate police investigations? Is it even possible to carry out these investigations in a privacy-respecting way? If the person being investigated makes use of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), how does this impact digital forensics investigations? Aim: The aim of our study was to identify how privacy rights and the use of PETs influence police digital forensics practices. Methods: We carried out a study with 10 digital forensics investigators from UK police forces to explore how considerations of privacy and citizens’ PET use inform or affect digital forensics investigations. Results: We identified specific uses of privacy-related principles that ought to apply in digital forensics investigation, and hindraces to digital forensics investigations from citizens’ use of PETs. Conclusions: We concluded with potential implications for practice and ideas for future research to reconcile the law enforcement activities with individual citizens’ inalienable privacy rights.
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Schaik, Paul van, Irons, Alastair and Renaud, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-6531;-
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Item type: Conference or Workshop Item(Paper) ID code: 86729 Dates: DateEvent6 January 2024Published18 August 2023AcceptedSubjects: Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science > Other topics, A-Z Department: Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 20 Sep 2023 09:53 Last modified: 09 Nov 2024 01:51 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/86729