Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Most Horrifying Tech Scandal You’ve Never Heard About”.
Fujitsu agrees that it is morally culpable, don’t know exactly what that means. How does that translate to dollars? I guess um that remains to be we’ll see. Morally culpable in 700 plus wrongful convictions. Paul Patterson European head of Fujitsu has publicly acknowledged that the company has a moral obligation to help financially compensate hundreds of UK postal workers who were wrongfully charged and convicted of theft and fraud between 1999 and 2015. Fujitsu supported the post office in the prosecution of hundreds of innocent sub postmasters, based on discrepancies found in fujitsu’s, Horizon accounting.
Soft. I didn’t even know Fujitsu made accounting softw one those companies that just make all the things the company now admits that they knew the software was flawed even at the time, and they took part in an appalling miscarriage of Justice. However, Patterson says that Fujitsu will wait for a judge to determine the company’s share of the settlement. Okay, you know, would I be trying to come up with something hoping that if it was like in good faith decent that, maybe I would get better like? Maybe I’d be looked at more favorably in a situation like this, or would I just be like, but I’ll just I’mma, let you I’m a wait and see like what what would be the play? What would be your play? I mean obviously we’re not lawyers. We don’t know the right way to do this, but we can kind of this is we’re talking moral, we’re talking moral culpability right now. I think you’d have to try to do something. I think I would i’ I’d want to try to do something, even if it’s small, even if it’s just like you, know hey how about like uh like um, I don’t know groceries stippen from now, until this is all resolved and with the with the understanding that It will come out of the total payout or something you know like just make their lives a little easier for a bit or something like I don’t know. I have no idea what exactly but I’ll, try to doing Luke.
I’M spitballing. You obviously not like you know, a Tim Horton’s gift card, but something something meaningful that makes their makes their lives a little better for a bit instead of way worse for a long period of time. Well, you cost 700 plus people their jobs, wage subsid people went to jail. This is bad, so at least wage subsidy, uh um, the sub postmasters, who are self-employed contractors, started reporting errors in the Horizon software. Only a few weeks after it had been installed. The post office responded by denying there was any flaw in the system and forcing individual workers to pay out of pocket to make up the difference. There’S never been any bugs in flow plane. The post you’re wrong.
The post office privately investigated over 900 contractors then used Horizon as evidence against them in Criminal Court leading to imprisonment, bankruptcy and four suicides. Even after a 2012 independent forensic audit found that Horizon had serious flaws. That could explain these discrepancies. The post office stood by the software’s reliability in 2019, the post office lost a class action lawsuit brought by over 500 sub postmasters, leading to public inquiry or leading to a public inquiry. The BBC recently aired a dramatization of the affair, which has drawn public outcry again.
In response last week, the British prime minister announced legislation to exonerate the affected sub postmasters. I’M wondering why this took so long yeah like that’s just criminal, I mean there’s no word for it other than criminal um yeah. I haven’t watched the BBC program on this, but uh people are adding additional details in the chat. Apparently, it’s amazing um people are adding details in the chat that are just appalling like like this is up man yeah this this is this is this is like so one one thing that I’m I’m getting a little bit lost here, though, was it the post office That said, there was no bugs, or was it Fujitsu uh the post office said there was no bugs, but we don’t. I don’t think we know um what fujitsu’s role is, because we haven’t watched the thing yet right, but like yeah I mean is that is that not at the very least manslaughter like for the people responsible for like can technically I yeah.
I don’t think you can be charged for someone else’s. No, you can be charged for someone else’s suicide if you bully or go them into it, yeah going to get into legal stuff that we don’t understand in a country that we’re not in yeah but like it’s going to be wild whoa, yeah, absolutely anyway, um. So uh, I am not a financial adviser, but maybe don’t invest in Fujitsu.
If you’ve been watching the whole show that’ll make sense. Oh wild. What’S up, I guess it’s a small amount but like I I would assume would have assumed this would have done something. Huh lunch break nice. Well, this is the one day no mean this. This is this like the uh stock market or something springing back over the last one day.
I mean that. Can that’s that’s a thing, though, because people buy the dip right, yeah any who um, but this is like. I wonder when this news broke.
Cuz they’ve been going down since what happened here. Stocks are weird anyways. That’S horrible people are like yeah. This won’t matter to uh their stock because they’re like as big as General, Electric speaking of General Electric.
They make like everything .