Since anyone can put anything they want on their servers, it seems like a lot of evidence could be thrown out in court cases if access to that information is not strictly monitored and audited to make sure the owners aren’t removing or adding data.
Does anyone know of industry-standard practices to ensure that data on servers is not being manipulated in a way to protect or harm users?
If you mean like a file for evidence got stored and you want to ensure it wasn’t tapered with you can generates a checksum hash then record that hash elsewhere for verification later. Drives will also store access times, even if no data was changes, but just touched or viewed