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Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by fingerlocks on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:41AM (#30330865)
Was Fujitsu aware their software was intended to be used as evidence to prosecute? It doesn’t sound like it to me.

If Google’s autocorrect mistakenly writes a falsely incriminating text that is inadvertently used as the sole evidence to convict, do we jail the autocorrect developers?

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Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by lozenge on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:01AM (#30330982)
Yes, they were involved in the prosecutions and had their own internal coverup.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252509066/Fujitsu-escape...

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Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by peteradio on Monday February 14, 2022 @08:23AM (#30331678)
Did those developers show up at trial attesting to the translation? It sounds like Fujitsu was doing custom data extraction from the Horizon system for the explicit purpose of prosecution then showing up to testify as to the credibility of that data.
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Re:Post Office scandal: Public inquiry to examine wrongful c... by toomanybeersies on Monday February 14, 2022 @08:30AM (#30331748)
> do we jail the autocorrect developers?

Google is liable for defamatory autocomplete suggestions (in Australia) [1], so that's not such a stretch of the imagination.

[1] https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/trkulja...

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