The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had mistakenly matched his fingerprints with prints on a plastic bag found near the scene of the attacks that killed 191 people last March.
An Oregon lawyer jailed as a material witness in the Madrid train bombings was freed this month after the F.B.I. said it had mistakenly matched his prints with others found near the scene of the attacks.
During routine booking into Monroe County Jail, Florida, his identity was mistakenly matched in a centralized database shared with ICE with that of an undocumented immigrant from Jamaica.
But problems arise when the credit bureau mistakenly matches one person's overdue debt to another person with a similar name.
Because of this, some of us mistakenly assume that every aspect of life has sped up to match this technology.
As for profiling, the Times offered this: "Two young black men were detained in handcuffs before being released with the terse explanation that they had mistakenly been stopped because they matched the general description of the robbers").
About a decade ago, a heavyset radio reporter strayed onto the field at Maracanã stadium, mistakenly believing a match was completed, Henning said.
For example, from the phrase 'chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT)', our system mistakenly recognized the abbreviation 'CAT' as a GM because it matched with the official symbol of the human gene 'CAT catalase' (NCBI Gene ID: 847), even though the associated full gene name 'cloramphenicol acetyltransferase' does not refer to a human gene.
And on the technical side, England's national DNA database, which stores what is unquestionably the most intrusive and personal information about its citizens, was reported this week to have mistakenly identified an innocent man as a burglar, throwing the science of DNA matching into an uproar.
At 5 20 the same morning, Los Angeles officers mistakenly shot and wounded two women delivering newspapers, thinking the pickup truck they were driving matched the description of the one Mr. Dorner was driving.
