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Re:It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations.... by d1sxeyes on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @02:34PM (#42129124)
Even that is problematic. A 98% match means there’s a 1 in 50 chance that the sample is not from the person that it’s been matched to. How many cases do you have to cross match with how many felons before you get a false positive? It’s probably not as many as you think, but I don’t have the numbers to do the maths with.

Suggested reading on this topic: https://freakonomics.com/2008/08/are-the-fbis-probabilities-...

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