I do agree that it seems that a line has been crossed. Clearly, Samsung isn't just juicing color balance or softening faces - they are adding data that was never in the image to begin with.
If I'm a defense lawyer, I'm going to call into question any evidence submitted by a Samsung smartphone of this generation, and will attempt to indicate that ANY images taken by smartphones are unreliable, as many Google phones allow you to remove people and backgrounds.
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