TrueAllele is reshaping DNA analysis, providing key evidence in thousands of homicides, rapes ... But that comes with a major caveat: *** Not a single prosecutor, government crime lab or defendant has had a meaningful look at how it works.***
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In one famous case, authorities thought a serial killer might be at work after finding a similar pattern of female DNA at crime scenes in multiple countries. It turned out that the swabs used to take samples contained genetic material from the women who made them at a factory.
when New York City was forced to disclose the source code of its own (a different one than mentioned in earlier tweets) probabilistic genotyping program, a defense expert found a bug that tended to overestimate a defendant’s likelihood of guilt.
“We shouldn’t be using the criminal justice system as a proving ground for new technologies, especially when the makers of these technologies are keeping how they work secret.”
In order to view the source code you have to sign an NDA. Which might prevent you from TESTIFYING about what you saw.
Groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have made similar points in other cases where Cybergenetics has fought access to its code, saying defendants are being accused by “secret evidence.”
Cybergenetics did eventually allow Kennedy to review TrueAllele’s source code on an iPad, but he has no expertise in computer programing.
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