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ArticleScience & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society2023

The use of COVID-19 contact tracing app data as evidence of a crime.

Marie-Helen Maras, Michelle D Miranda, Adam Scott Wandt

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Article in Science & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marie-Helen MarasDepartment of Security, Fire and Emergency Management, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, 524 W. 59th Street, Haaren Hall, Room 43311, New York, NY 10019, USA. Electronic address: mmaras@jjay.cuny.edu.
Michelle D MirandaDepartment of Criminal Justice, Center for Criminal Justice, State University of New York, Farmingdale, NY, USA.
Adam Scott WandtDepartment of Public Management, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, NY, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This commentary draws attention to the introduction of data collected by COVID-19 tracing apps as evidence in criminal proceedings and the novel considerations this evidence presents for criminal justice agents and digital forensics professionals.

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COVID-19CriminalsMobile ApplicationsContact TracingCrimeHumansContact tracing appCOVID-19Digital forensicsEvidenceFunction creep

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PMID36870696
PMCPMC9805950

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