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Cybercheck Tool Allegedly Provides Questionable Evidence in Murder Trials

May 3, 2024

Global Intelligence's Cybercheck AI tool, a popular choice among law enforcement for tracking suspects via open source data, has been under scrutiny for providing inaccurate or unverifiable evidence in multiple murder trials. The lack of transparency and reliability in the tool's reports has led to its findings being questioned, prompting prosecutors to withdraw Cybercheck evidence in several cases.

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Alleged deployer
global-intelligence, cybercheck
Alleged developer
global-intelligence, cybercheck
Alleged harmed parties
phillip-mendoza, sergio-cerna, unnamed-aurora-colorado-residents, mississippi-bureau-of-investigation, four-unnamed-summit-county-ohio-men, unnamed-boulder-county-colorado-resident, ohio-bureau-of-criminal-investigation, yakima-county-sheriff's-office

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/823

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