Article 5JFVC Digital forensics experts prone to bias, study shows

Digital forensics experts prone to bias, study shows

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Linda Geddes Science correspondent
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Participants found more or less evidence on hard drive depending on what contextual information they had

Devices such as phones, laptops and flash drives are becoming increasingly central to police investigations, but the reliability of digital forensics experts' evidence has been called into question.

A study found that experts tended to find more or less evidence on a suspect's computer hard drive to implicate or exonerate them depending on the contextual information about the investigation that they were given.

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