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UK Post Office Horizon — AI as Infallible Evidence

The UK Post Office prosecuted over 700 subpostmasters for theft and fraud based on accounting discrepancies produced by the Horizon IT system — a system known internally to have software bugs. Subpostmasters were imprisoned and bankrupted. The Post Office suppressed evidence of Horizon's defects fo…

Confidence
80%
Sources
1
Entities
1
Detected
1 Jan 1999

Event summary

The UK Post Office prosecuted over 700 subpostmasters for theft and fraud based on accounting discrepancies produced by the Horizon IT system — a system known internally to have software bugs. Subpostmasters were imprisoned and bankrupted. The Post Office suppressed evidence of Horizon's defects fo…

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ent-org-fujitsu-post-office-ltd to ent-psf-d6maps to62%
ent-org-fujitsu-post-office-ltd to ent-psf-d8maps to62%