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| Horizon jails UK Post Office employees |
For the past 20 years, British Post employees have been working on a program called Horizon, which included errors that made it look like an employee was stealing thousands of pounds.
This has led to the convictions and even imprisonment of some local postal managers for insisting that the software can be trusted.
After decades of litigation, judges overturned the convictions of 39 former postal managers on the grounds that it was the largest infraction in UK history.
The judge said: The Post knows there is a problem with Horizon's credibility and has a clear responsibility to investigate its shortcomings, but Post has always insisted on Horizon's reliability and outperformance of every postmaster who has tried to question its accuracy. .
Janet Skinner said: "I have been fired from my child for 9 months after the plan dropped by £ 59,000. I lost my job due to a criminal conviction."
According to the BBC, a woman was sentenced to prison for stealing while pregnant and a man committed suicide after a computer system showed he had lost nearly £ 100,000.
Made by Japan's Fujitsu company, Horizon was first used in post offices in 1999 and can be used for a variety of tasks, including bookkeeping and inventory management.
The information he received was used to prosecute 736 postal workers between 2000 and 2014.
Errors in the system have resulted in insufficient account reports being audited by employees.
The BBC reported that some employees were even trying to fill the void by re-mortgaging their homes or using their own money.
The employee's nightmare appears to be coming to an end as Swiss Post tries to compensate employees affected by the program.
In 2019, Swiss Post reached an agreement with 555 applicants, paid 555 applicants and established a reward system for other affected employees. To date, more than 2,400 records have been submitted.
The CEO of this post earlier this month said: Horizon will be replaced with a new cloud-based solution.
In the same letter, he said: The Post is working with the government to compensate employees affected by the inaccuracy of Horizon.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson echoed his views and described the initial beliefs as appalling grievances.
The BBC reported that Washington had argued that the error could not be a procedural error, even though it knew it was a mistake.
There is evidence that the Legal Department in the Mail knew that a trial might lead to inaccurate results before some convictions were issued.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a representative from the Post Office said: The Post agrees that many ordinary people lose their lives and freedom in order to pursue reputation and profit.