Via metafilter, discovered these two videos which really taught me a lot about the Fifth Amendment and the Miranda warning.
Learned of this project called “The Innocence Project“.
The Innocence Project’s groundbreaking use of DNA technology to free innocent people has provided irrefutable proof that wrongful convictions are not isolated or rare events but instead arise from systemic defects.
I wonder…. How many people have been falsely convicted in Singapore. Do these individuals have any sort of recourse to right the wrongs done against them? Do we have such rights as stated in the video?
Anyway, back to the videos. I was wondering about what we write on our blogs as well as the information we sprinkle all across the different online services and whether we will ever see a case where the stuff we put online is used as evidence against us.
I’m not talking about a racist writing a seditious blog post. I’m talking about twittering an innocuous message at 10.15am saying that you are at Raffles MRT waiting for a friend and that is used as evidence that you were around the vicinity of a certain crime.
Or you write a Wall Post talking about how much you hate someone and then something happens to that someone. Motive?
I wonder….
We don’t exactly put everything online. And when we do, it isn’t always the truth - there are times when there are embellishments to the story we tell. What is truth anyway? Is it what actually happened or the way we remembered what happened?
Hmmm… Just saying that our online bread crumbs might lead people down the wrong path about who we really are.
I wonder if one day it can be used against us in court.
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