The US Federal Court ruled that the defense must provide the source code of the TrueAllele software used to analyze the DNA of a suspect in a serious crime. The court agreed with the position of the lawyers, who argued that the software used in collecting evidence may contain errors that could distort the results and lead to the conviction of an innocent person. Therefore, the lawyers insisted that they be given access to the code of the program used for DNA analysis in order to conduct an independent audit.
Initially, the prosecution and the manufacturing company Cybergenetics refused to provide the code under the pretext of maintaining trade secrets, but the court decided that the right of the accused to challenge the evidence provided and the danger of false conclusions about the commission of a crime due to errors in complex software overshadowed commercial interests, and decided to provide the original texts to the defense side. The code was provided under non-disclosure conditions, but there was already a similar incident in the past - after the defense was able to find several flaws in the software, the court approved the publication of the code for a public audit.
Source: opennet.ru