Courts in UK may stop treating computer data as legally infallible
A legal presumption that computer data is infallibile may have led to a major scandal in the U.K: the jailing of hundreds of postal workers on false embezzlement claims tied to inaccurate data generated by Horizon, a sprawling point-of-sale system developed for the Post Office by Fujitsu. A bug-filled…
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