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Phone Tracking Data Is Notoriously Unreliable. So Why Are We Still Using It in Court?

COLLECT CALL

A crisis hitting the Danish criminal justice system could easily happen here.

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Imagine being falsely accused of a crime, not by a stranger, but by the companion that knows you best in this world. It’s not your spouse or your parents, but the partner that follows you for nearly every step of your day, through intimate moments good and bad: your phone....

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