CROSS‑PLATFORM FORENSIC ANALYSIS: FROM AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS TO PERSONAL DEVICES
AUTHOR – UPASANA GHOSH, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL SCIENCE, TECHNO INDIA UNIVERSITY.
BEST CITATION – UPASANA GHOSH,CROSS PLATFORM FORENSIC ANALYSIS: FROM AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS TO PERSONAL DEVICES, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 6 (9) OF 2026, PG. 288-295, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.
ABSTRACT
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the most important applied science in all sectors of life. In the same way, the forensic department is also taking benefit from it in various ways. More individuals are realising the importance of AI in everyone’s lives and working hard to comprehend it through digital science, which is now very convenient and available to anyone. Technology can make people’s job easier, but it will never be able to replace humans. Forensic science is an area of forensic experts, and Artificial Intelligence will never be able to reach that level. It will only serve as a supplementary tool to human experts. It implements automation, which saves substantial time and money while allowing investigators to focus more on areas where fraud may occur. It assists forensics experts with detecting behaviour from massive volumes of unstructured data, such as videos, pictures, emails, and text files. It’s a more dynamic method than rule-based testing, which can only assess fraud risk across a single data set. It eliminates information that might hamper an analytics-aided investigation. AI technology can assist in pattern recognition, such as identifying different components of a single image, detecting patterns in emails and messages, and matching new information with various forms of existing data in system databases. It can also assist detectives in connecting suspect information with existing criminal records and informing them of any past criminal conduct that the suspect in question may have been involved in. With the exponential rate of growth of storage capacity, such as USB, hard drives, optical media, and flash drives, it is getting more difficult for forensic science investigators to store and evaluate