I found an article about a Federal Court test case from a couple of years ago about this matter.
Although an exception was made in this case,
"there is no guarantee that evidence from the Wayback Machine will be admissible and accepted as reliable in Court."
Historical web pages are one thing, but what about current web pages which may be deleted by the time the hearing takes place? Is there some sort of certifiable way to access a web page before it is deleted? eg can I get a JP to access a web page and then sign a stat dec to confirm that a printed screenshot is identical to the web page on that day?
There is a service (which kind of does what I just suggested a JP might do) called SafeStamper but I don't know if it is acceptable in an Australian Court although it does say "These guarantees are also reinforced with an audit process of all signed and dated blockchain3 documents, making their validity unquestionable in any other legislation that could challenge European regulations, thus giving coverage to possible litigation in any nation."
Although an exception was made in this case,
"there is no guarantee that evidence from the Wayback Machine will be admissible and accepted as reliable in Court."
Historical web pages are one thing, but what about current web pages which may be deleted by the time the hearing takes place? Is there some sort of certifiable way to access a web page before it is deleted? eg can I get a JP to access a web page and then sign a stat dec to confirm that a printed screenshot is identical to the web page on that day?
There is a service (which kind of does what I just suggested a JP might do) called SafeStamper but I don't know if it is acceptable in an Australian Court although it does say "These guarantees are also reinforced with an audit process of all signed and dated blockchain3 documents, making their validity unquestionable in any other legislation that could challenge European regulations, thus giving coverage to possible litigation in any nation."
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