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It's only recently some have come to terms with the fact that DNA evidence sometimes returns false positives. Society, and law enforcement, assumed that DNA was
by mrweasel 7mo ago
It's only recently some have come to terms with the fact that DNA evidence sometimes returns false positives. Society, and law enforcement, assumed that DNA was infallible. No one apparently wondered millions of people could be reduced to a tiny number of genetic markers apparently having no overlap.
Danish police had to redo 20.000 DNA tests with a larger set of markeres begin tested, because they jailed someone based solely on a DNA test and did consider that they might have gotten the wrong person, despite the DNA match. It's essentially a human hash collision.
Identification by AI is going to be the same, except worse, because it's frankly less scientific. Law enforcement, the judicial system and especially the public is simply to uninterested in learning the limitations of these types of systems. Even in the more civilized part of the world police would love to just have the computer tell them who to pick up and where.
- hpdigidrifter 7mo agoClosed source DNA testing software and hardware is a travesty imo
- Gibbon1 7mo agoThere was a man arrested in Santa Clara county because his DNA was tracked to a murder scene by the paramedics that treated him before they were called to the scene of the murder. He only got away with it because the public defender realized that he was in the hospitals detox at the time of the murder.
- lotsofpulp 7mo agoTypically, the “it” in the phrase “got away with it” refers to an action that broke the rules.
- jackyinger 7mo ago“Got off” would be more appropriate
- Eddy_Viscosity2 7mo ago"got off" implies he was guilty but got away with it. I'd say "vindicated" or "absolved" fit the bill here.
- fsckboy 7mo agohe only got away from it (it being the allegation)
- RobotToaster 7mo agoDNA can also be completely faked https://www.technologyreview.com/2009/08/17/210960/how-dna-evidence-can-be-falsified/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2009/08/17/210960/how-dna-e...