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kennywinkeryesterday at 4:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Right, on an individual level that makes sense - but whoever saw the error rate for this test (or lied about it to sell it) and approved it for use by police deserves jail time themselves.

You’d think we’d have a mechanism to make that happen.


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_DeadFred_yesterday at 6:42 PM

Get together a law firm to do a class action on behalf of all the people wrongfully convicted. Make it too expensive for companies to provide these sorts of services to the government. But the companies will be covered as 'agents of the state' and given qualified immunity.

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