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It can send innocent people to jail: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/10/google-data-puts-innocent-man-at-the-scene-of-a-crime/ https://nakedsecurity.s

• wmeredith 4y ago
  I'm sure it can, but in the link you provided it definitely did not.
  • shaky-carrousel 4y ago
    > McCoy was lucky. He and his family are also a bit poorer because of the incident. If his parents hadn’t helped him out by giving him thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer, things could have turned out differently, he says. Out of partly luck and partly a lawyer. He could easily have ended up in jail.
    • kleer001 4y ago
      And that's one example out of hundreds of millions. Still not scary.
• kleer001 4y ago
  And once a cop came home to the wrong apartment and shot a dude. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45632941 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45632941 Food poisoning kills dozens every year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foodborne_illness_outbreaks_by_death_toll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foodborne_illness_outb... Some estimate that nearly 10% of people in Jail in the states are innocent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_Project Your example is a base rate fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy aka Extension Neglect : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_neglect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extension_neglect "One swallow does not a summer make"