flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoFujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1606arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1605arrow-down1external-linkFujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start”arstechnica.comflop_leash_973@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 years agoThen how the fuck can hundreds be convicted just because database said so?
minus-squareunreasonabro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 years agothe legal system is for punishing uppity serfs, not resolving the truth
minus-squareperviouslyiner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-22 years agobecause UK law said that computer systems should be assumed to be working correctly, which is exactly as stupid as it sounds.
minus-squareperviouslyiner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agohttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/update-law-on-computer-evidence-to-avoid-horizon-repeat-ministers-urged
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoHow does the UK manage to be even worse than the US?
Then how the fuck can hundreds be convicted just because database said so?
the legal system is for punishing uppity serfs, not resolving the truth
because UK law said that computer systems should be assumed to be working correctly, which is exactly as stupid as it sounds.
?? How? When?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/update-law-on-computer-evidence-to-avoid-horizon-repeat-ministers-urged
How does the UK manage to be even worse than the US?
They are the source