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>so by your standards even the police lab reports can’t be trusted. There's some evidence that this is the case. In Germany we had a very high profile case whe

by chopin 7y ago

>so by your standards even the police lab reports can’t be trusted. There's some evidence that this is the case. In Germany we had a very high profile case where the police used contaminated swabs for taking DNA samples. There's also evidence that both DNA and fingerprint attribution is not trustworthy (from a strictly scientific perspective). This gets imho even worse with data. Even in good faith an ISP can't be trusted. There is no chain of custody for the location records, they are very likely faulty, not immutable and so forth. As an accused, I have no way of challenging the records, unlike other forensic evidence like DNA tests.

josefx 7y ago
> contaminated swabs for taking DNA samples. Not only contaminated, the swaps weren't even rated for lab use. They spend years looking for a phantom serial killer active in half the country because several police labs were cutting costs. The mysterious killer was working in a swab factory. > There's also evidence that both DNA and fingerprint attribution is not trustworthy (from a strictly scientific perspective). Isn't the issue that they use so few markers that you would be guaranteed collisions the moment you tried to build a large scale biometric database?