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Re:New software could have ID’d Boston bomber by fiatmoney on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @11:21PM (#5790705)
Meaningless unless you know the false positive rate. A technology with a 1% false positive rate over the US population gives you a Minneapolis of people to investigate.
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Re:New software could have ID’d Boston bomber by tantalor on Thursday May 30, 2013 @01:51AM (#5791137)
You only seed it with persons of interest.

They don't want to identify every random person, just persons of interest, wherever they go.

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