flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoFujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1605arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up1604arrow-down1external-linkFujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start”arstechnica.comflop_leash_973@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
minus-squarekamenoko@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·10 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_Corpus_Act_1679 About 350 years ago.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·10 months agoThen how the fuck can hundreds be convicted just because database said so?
minus-squareunreasonabro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·10 months agothe legal system is for punishing uppity serfs, not resolving the truth
minus-squareperviouslyiner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-210 months 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-up4·10 months agohttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/update-law-on-computer-evidence-to-avoid-horizon-repeat-ministers-urged
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoHow does the UK manage to be even worse than the US?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_Corpus_Act_1679
About 350 years ago.
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