This is outsourced automated parallel construction.
Honestly it seems more sinister than that, Its a black box deliberately designed to be as obscure about its methods as possible that can produce corroborating ‘evidence’ on demand in a way that’s deliberately un-verifiable but wrapped in some very authorotive sounding technobabble.
Parallel construction requires real evidence though. This company just seems to fabricate evidence to confirm police hypothesises. I think what happens is: Police ask “was this person there at that time on that day”, the company conjures up a report that the person’s mystical digital profile pinged a wireless printer at that place at roughly the right time, but also at a second other time for a tiny bit of credibility (but by only changing the date of the timestamp, which actually makes it more suspect). People go search for that printer, and then there never was a printer.
And given that the only thing that external parties saw, was less than a 1000 lines of code for automatic searches and none for interpretation, it might not even be automated, but just a human pasting together reports. A human pretending to be ai.
I’d call it outsourced fabrication of evidence.
In 2021, Midland County, Texas sheriff’s deputies were investigating the murder of a woman whose burned body had been found in a roadside field.
The sheriff’s office asked Cybercheck for help and received a report claiming that the algorithms had determined, with 97.25 percent accuracy, that Cerna’s cyber profile had pinged a wireless LaserJet printer near the crime scene the day the victim’s body was found.
I’m not saying it’s impossible, but what is a LaserJet printer doing next to a roadside field? Or did I misread this?
In the next paragraph: “by the time of the Daubert hearing, the printer that Cybercheck had identified in its report couldn’t be located.”. I suspect there never was a printer. If asked leading questions by the investigators, then the company probably fabricates evidence that corroborates the suspicions of the investigators. And the quality of fabricated evidence is probably poor because of how cheap they are. Quality takes time and skill, and skilled time costs money.
That’s what I’m guessing. What I was trying to say was that having a printer powered on and connected to the internet while next to a roadside crime scene seems a bit suspicious.
