Errant data led to errant prosecution of British postal workers

Errant data led to errant prosecution of British postal workers

Thousands of workers were wrongfully accused and prosecuted in the early 2000s, because of false data produce by a poor accounting system. Horizon, the information technology program at fault for the accounting errors, was created by Fujitsu, a Japanese company, under a contract with the British government. The report alleges that even before the program was rolled out in 1999, some Fujitsu employees knew that Horizon could produce false data. F…