The Intercept

Smoke and Errors

March 31, 2025 // by Sarah Olson

Smoke and ErrorsRead More

How to Build a Human: A Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias.

February 2, 2025 // by Sarah Olson

How to Build a Human: A Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias.Read More

There’s a junk science crisis in criminal convictions. Sonia Sotomayor calls it out in Alabama bite-mark case.

July 10, 2024 // by Sarah Olson

There’s a junk science crisis in criminal convictions. Sonia Sotomayor calls it out in Alabama bite-mark case.Read More

The Secrets DNA Keeps

September 18, 2023 // by Sarah Olson

The Secrets DNA KeepsRead More

FBI Hoovering up DNA at a Pace that Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting

August 29, 2023 // by Sarah Olson

FBI Hoovering up DNA at a Pace that Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and CountingRead More

Police are getting DNA data from people who think they opted out

August 18, 2023 // by Sarah Olson

Police are getting DNA data from people who think they opted outRead More

Lie detector firm lobbies CIA, DOD on automated eye-scanning tech

April 10, 2023 // by Sarah Olson

Lie detector firm lobbies CIA, DOD on automated eye-scanning techRead More

Whistling past the graveyard: Why it’s so hard to rid the courts or junk science

April 24, 2022 // by Sarah Olson

Whistling past the graveyard: Why it’s so hard to rid the courts or junk scienceRead More

Fire Scientists Testify in Support of Claude Garrett’s Bid for Freedom

April 16, 2022 // by Sarah Olson

Fire Scientists Testify in Support of Claude Garrett’s Bid for FreedomRead More

Duty to Correct

March 12, 2022 // by Sarah Olson

Duty to CorrectRead More

Orange County Prosecutors Operate “Vast, Secretive” Genetic Surveillance Program

July 3, 2021 // by Sarah Olson

Orange County Prosecutors Operate “Vast, Secretive” Genetic Surveillance ProgramRead More

Your car is spying on you, and a CBP contract shows the risks

May 4, 2021 // by Sarah Olson

Your car is spying on you, and a CBP contract shows the risksRead More

Will Bringing Science Back to the White House Reinvigorate Forensics Reform?

January 22, 2021 // by Sarah Olson

Will Bringing Science Back to the White House Reinvigorate Forensics Reform?Read More

The Junk Science Cops Use to Decide if You’re Lying

August 12, 2020 // by Sarah Olson

The Junk Science Cops Use to Decide if You’re LyingRead More

The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud

July 14, 2020 // by Sarah Olson

The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure CloudRead More