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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
by fingerlocks 5y ago
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?
- lozenge 5y agoYes, they were involved in the prosecutions and had their own internal coverup. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252509066/Fujitsu-escaped-huge-lawsuit-because-Post-Office-behaved-so-badly-in-Horizon-scandal https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252509066/Fujitsu-escape...
- peteradio 5y agoDid 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.
- toomanybeersies 5y ago> 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-v-google-llc/ https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/trkulja...