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Data scientist here. I'm surprised nobody here has yet mentioned the false-positive issue with trawling a large dataset: even a tiny false positive rate leads to a very high probability of convicting an innocent person if you mine a large enough database.


But the only reason for such a database is to get a conviction. Case solved.




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