[AnthonyMouse]

>I'd hate to have a coincidental pattern become "proof" in some kind of court case.

Especially when the pattern is what the cops use to identify the suspect in the first place.

There is a real problem with big data in the courtroom. Take the intersection of a victim, a crime and a suspect and look at a million data points and you'll find several thousand that match. Put only those in front of a jury and you have something that looks like a mountain of evidence but is really just systematically applying confirmation bias to random noise.