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That eliminate both options for journalists and lawyers. There are professions which could have legitimate reasons for having the material and as terrible as it is, is it actually illegal?



From the legal standpoint, using those sort of services for storing sensitive case data like that is a bad call. too much media in those situations violate the terms and services of most platforms paid or not, and too many of those platforms have too many liberties with the usage policies on the media.

If you are dealing with case data, you should be have those policies reviewed carefully, and should likely be encrypting before storing anywhere anyway.

I say should because I almost never see case data stored to standard.


Possession of the Christchurch video is illegal in NZ. Not sure about elsewhere.




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