Forensics, Meet Data Science

A new field is emerging within Forensic Science — uniting investigative tools and principles with leading-edge approaches to data gathering and analysis. These new capabilities present game-changing opportunities for criminal investigations, but also have interesting applications in corporate governance and compliance management.

Forensics - the science of determining the circumstances and perpetration of crime - has

Teaching Old Science New Tricks

Reconstruction through Deconstruction

Just the Facts…

Predictive Assessment and Remediation

And, So?

thesis: traditional forensics approaches are merging with new tools (AI, IoT…), exponentially expanding the data space available for fact-finding. These tools are important to law enforcement and civil disputes but create very large concerns for guarding privacy.