Digital evidence is electronic data, materials, objects, property, documents or records presented in court to prove or disprove charges brought against an arrestee. Digital evidence takes the form of electronic data or information stored in bits and bytes on magnetic media. This type of evidence could consist of photos, videos, text documents, Internet activity logs, telephone numbers, or any other electronically stored data that has relevance to a criminal case. Some items that are examples of digital evidence are cell phones, personal computers, digital cameras, portable video players, digital voice recorders, pagers, portable storage media such as pen drives and computer media discs, and CDs/DVDs. The most important step in digital media preservation is to make sure that all data on your computer's hard drive or other media is intact and exactly as it was found. Another important key to digital media is the proper management of CDs, DVDs, pen drives and floppy disks. These items can be easily cleaned if they come into contact with any type of magnetic object ...