How Software Bugs led to ‘One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice’ in British History
In a Kafkaesque nightmare come true, nearly 1,000 individuals who ran local post offices in the U.K. were wrongly convicted of stealing money from those operations between 1999 and 2015 as a Fujitsu software system known as Horizon erroneously showed imbalances in their accounts.The convictions resulted in prison for some of the managers and financial ruin for many held responsible for the missing funds. Those that were not prosecuted were typically fired, resulting in wrecked lives, including f...
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