"A look of panic began to cross [Tory MP] Gullis’s face as he realised he had been stitched up by Kemi. That she had been less than truthful with him and others. Who would have guessed? So unlike her. Gullis wasn’t the first to regret sticking up for the business secretary. Nor would he be the last. Gullis began to hastily backtrack."
The BBC programme (part 2) is well worth watching but doesn't get into the computer system much. The House of Lords stated, on the basis of Computer Weekly's persistent work in this area, "It is also vital that the
Chinook saga is recognised as an example of just how the severe the consequences of poor IT project management can be".
Als IT’er bij een overheidsinstelling lees ik veel mee met het Britse #horizonscandal (hordes postbodes onterecht veroordeeld wegens fraude op basis van een slecht IT-systeem).
Conclusie: we moeten nú zorgen dat leidinggevenden, bestuurders, wetgevers en rechters zich bewust gaan worden van de werking en beperkingen van IT (en op dit moment specifiek AI), want anders wordt het echt een teringzooi.
I realised the other night why the whole #PostOfficeScandal#HorizonScandal is so eerily familiar.
Horizon is the successor to the ICL benefits payment card system. The one that the Benefits Office cancelled in the early 2000s because ICL made such a hash of it. The downfall of ICL - partly due to the benefits card mess - was something we studied in university.
Have just started watching the committee hearing ... "There is a risk that some post masters who HAVE engaged in fraud will be acquitted/compensated" ... seems like a slow smearing of post masters ... needs to be nipped in the bud.
@RobertJackson58585858 Aye, more important to punish the little people who might have committed fraud than the big companies that definitely falsely imprisoned them and destroyed their lives
On Thursday 2024-01-11 on #BBCRadio4 "PM" programme, in an item to do with injustices in the legal system in the UK, court reporter Tristan Kirk spoke to Evan Davis about the "single justice procedure" where a sole judge decides on cases in a closed-setting without the person/organization in question being present.
One case was a young woman who "lacked mental capacity" and so her financial affairs were run for her by the local authority; her television licence fee was not paid so #TVLicensing made a prosecution; the local authority (the ones who were responsible for making her payments) entered a guilty plea on her behalf!
If anyone has ever received an email from me, the contents of which they did not like, then please understand it wasn’t me who wrote it. Actually it was either written by lawyers and I was instructed to send it or it was a group effort and I’ve forgotten who the members of the group were.
"But a saddening thing is that if it were not those particular identifiable individuals who were culpable (and they certainly should be held to account) then it would have been other individuals doing the same things. And this is because of legal and corporate contexts that facilitated this wrongdoing" – @davidallengreen