Ars Technica writes<\/a> that “Fujitsu software bugs that helped send innocent postal employees to prison in the UK were known “right from the very start of deployment,” [according to] a Fujitsu executive [during] a public inquiry”.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot-2024-01-24-at-12.07.21-389x700.png\")
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From 1999 onwards, the accounting software called Horizon was installed in UK post offices by a Fujitsu subsidiary. Since then, between 1999 – 2015, this software has led to the “prosecution and conviction of more than 900 sub-postmasters and postmistresses who were accused of theft or fraud when the software wrongly made it appear that money was missing from their branches”.<\/p>\n
The Fujitsu executive now says that bugs in the software had been known from the outset. A lawyer representing victims asked the key question: “Did nobody historically make that pretty obvious connection between very poor code going out into operation and then very poor data coming out and through the litigation support service?”<\/p>\n
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