Error-laden phone location data suspended from use in Danish courts

[HAL9000]

Denmark has found multiple glitches in cellphone tracking data that’s thrown some 10,700 verdicts into question and led to the release of 32 detainees.

Jan Reckendorff, the director of public prosecutions, told Denmark’s state broadcaster that a separate error was found in how some cellphone tracking data associated phones with the wrong towers, potentially linking innocent people to crime scenes.

Error-laden phone location data suspended from use in Danish courts

 

[SpookyFrank]

There will be more and more of this sort of thing as we place more trust in algorithms, datasets and other stuff that is mistakenly assumed to be less error-prone than humans.