Scandal: Post Office Horizon The Worst Software Ever? | Short Documentary
Channel: Plainly Difficult
Date: 2024-03-16

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During the late 90s and 2000's a Post Office accounting software known as horizon produced by a Fujitsu subsidiary, falsely indicated short falls on hundreds of Post office accounts. 

This resulted in hundreds of false convictions of fraud, what's more the post office knew and continued to charge their workers the short fall...... 

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Sources: 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/icl-stumbles-on-pathway-to-hell-1092947.html 
https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/09/how-the-post-offices-horizon-system-failed-a-technical-breakdown https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/evidence https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/mr-bates-post-office-obe-b2472153.html 
https://www.postofficetrial.com/2020/12/transcript-historic-hearing-at.html 
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justice-lost-in-the-post.pdf 

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Fun Words: Therac-25, Software Glitch, Post office Scandal, Poor Design, Disaster Management, Wrongful Conviction