El error de software que condujo al procesamiento judicial de 736 personas

En los medios de comunicación se está dando a conocer el caso del software que se empleaba en las oficinas postales en el Reino Unido que condujo al procesamiento judicial de 736 personas por fraude.

En el artículo British Post Office scandal de la Wikipedia podemos leer:

The British Post Office scandal is a widespread and long-lasting series of individual miscarriages of justice which, between 1999 and 2015, involved over 700 subpostmasters being wrongly convicted of theft, false accounting and fraud when shortfalls at their branches were in fact due to errors of the Post Office’s Horizon accounting software. In 2019, the High Court ruled that the Horizon system was faulty and in 2020 the government established a public inquiry. Courts began to quash convictions from 2010. As of January 2024, some victims are still fighting to have their convictions overturned and receive compensation, the public inquiry is ongoing, and the Metropolitan Police is investigating the Post Office for potential fraud offences.

Y algunos de los artículos publicados durante estos días:

• Post Office Scandal: How Faulty Horizon Software Led to the False Prosecution of 736 Workers
• Fujitsu will be held accountable over Post Office scandal, says government