@danyork There's also Farhad Manjoo's article at the NYT: "Why Alex Murdaugh’s Quick Conviction Worries Me"

[P]rosecutors reconstructed a tight timeline of the crime using lots and lots of data. Among other sources, they extracted information from Alex, Maggie and Paul Murdaugh’s iPhones, call records of family and friends, location and speed data from Murdaugh’s S.U.V., entry logs from his office security system, images from automatic license plate readers mounted on public roads, communications on social networks and messaging apps, reams of financial data and video and audio recorded on Murdaugh’s 911 call .... [P]rosecutors in the Murdaugh case claimed to find many deeper truths in the digital record. And it’s in their interpretations of the data that they sometimes lost me. Often, they seemed to be finding patterns in the data that didn’t necessarily hold true, and this made me wary that the authorities can build outlandish stories from our data.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/opinion/alex-murdaugh-guilty-verdict.html

Surveillance capitalism melds with the surveillance state. Sure, this case seems to be a highly-plausible murderer convicted through digital forensics, but far more mundane or harmful possibilities loom.

Cardinal Richelieu's (apocryphal) "six lines" quip comes to mind.

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