Fujitsu says it has a “moral obligation” to compensate hundreds of UK Post Office staff wrongly prosecuted from 1999 to 2015 due to bugs in its Horizon software
Because of this buggy software, 900 UK sub-postmasters and postmistresses were “prosecuted for theft and false accounting.” … LinkedIn: Steve Holloway : A moral obligation to compensate is one thing. What about a moral and ethical obligation to tell the truth and not conspire to prosecute innocent people. … Forums: Hacker News : Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry told
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- A moral obligation to compensate is one thing. What about a moral and ethical obligation to tell the truth and not conspire to prosecute innocent people. … Steve Holloway
- Fixing Horizon bugs would have been too costly, Post Office inquiry told Hacker News
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WTH? Accounting software developed in the late 1990s by a company purchased by Fujitsu led to FALSE IMPRISONMENT in the UK. — Because of this buggy software, 900 UK sub-postmasters and postmistresses were “prosecuted for theft and false accounting.” …