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Creepy ‘Geofence’ Finds Anyone Who Went Near a Crime Scene

28 pointsby onetimemanytimeover 4 years ago

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ponkerover 4 years ago
For people wondering why this is bad: Let’s say you have a DNA test that’s 99.9% accurate. If you find a suspect through normal investigative means and then test his DNA and he matches, you‘ve almost surely got the right guy.<p>If you geofence the crime scene and test&#x2F;Ancestry-scan the 10,000 people who went through the crime scene that day, you’ll get a DNA match for 10 innocent people, and a lay jury won’t have the statistical fluency to understand how the two scenarios are different.
srtjstjsjover 4 years ago
&quot;Creepy policing investigates the evidence at crime scenes.&quot;