6 comments

  • londons_explore 37 minutes ago
    Incompetence in the justice system is a good reason to keep all trackers on and privacy features off.

    That gives you enough data to robustly say "look, I couldn't have been in this chat conversation, because here is my data from that day and you'll clearly see I was running a marathon".

    I personally keep 24x7 audio recordings of my life to try to get ahead of false accusations.

    • nubg 25 minutes ago
      > I personally keep 24x7 audio recordings of my life to try to get ahead of false accusations.

      Can you go a little more into the details here?

      • londons_explore 10 minutes ago
        Just a little DIY android app that keeps an audio recorder always going and uploads recordings to cloud storage every 10 mins.

        It also attempts to transcribe the recordings and make a full text index, although the word error rate on that bit is rather high!

      • echelon_musk 13 minutes ago
        It has to be satire.
        • walrus01 12 minutes ago
          Audio recordings aren't good enough, this is why I keep 24x7 recordings of my life in 8K (4320p) raw YUV 4:4:4 color space video with uncompressed 24-bit audio. The NVME RAID array bills are getting a bit steep, however.
        • londons_explore 8 minutes ago
          No, but I do have other reasons for doing it beyond just false accusations.
  • RaSoJo 33 minutes ago
    He has been set free, but his entire life has been destroyed by this "subtle" mistake. Once you have spent time, no employer will touch you with a barge pole. (innocence not withstanding)

    Do hope he can claim compensation...

    • nubg 26 minutes ago
      > Do hope he can claim compensation...

      Can any UK lawyer chime in?

      • OJFord 18 minutes ago
        This is an error by US (Wisconsin) police misidentifying a man in (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Canada. Why do you want to hear from a UK lawyer?

        It sounds like the appeal hasn't actually happened/completed yet anyway, that they're trying to raise public interest/outrage to help the case.

        • walrus01 14 minutes ago
          The appeal has been completed and he's been acquitted. Note the past tense in how the CBC wrote this part:

          "The Wisconsin police identified Mr. Klayme as the offender using the incorrect username. His conviction rested on the internet username being attributed to him,” the appeal panel wrote.

          The Appeal Court decision said no evidence was found linking Klayme to the girl, the Kik conversations, or the intimate images.

          In addition to an acquittal entered on the charges, the sentence and ancillary orders against Klayme were vacated.

  • defrost 1 hour ago
    Article Title: 'A subtle mistake': How a single underscore led to an innocent Halifax man's conviction
    • walrus01 59 minutes ago
      Correct, I might have broken the title description rule, but I think my description more accurately summarizes what happened. I don't think my title is biased one way or the other.
      • jsnell 31 minutes ago
        Your title leaving out the "innocent" part makes it a stunningly inaccurate summary.
  • walrus01 1 hour ago
    Note, the post title field isn't long enough, this is a skyrim themed username used on a 3rd party service. Not for the name used by character in Skyrim itself, which is not (without extensive and rare modding) a multiplayer game.
  • oriettaxx 1 hour ago
    and these are called 'investigators'?
    • hurfdurf 19 minutes ago
      Convicting an person who is not guilty, that's how good they are. /s