Editing Fujitsu (section)

==Horizon scandal==
{{main|British Post Office scandal}}
Fujitsu designed, developed and operated the [[Post Office Horizon IT|Horizon IT system]] which was at the centre of the legal dispute between the [[Post Office Limited|UK Post Office]] and its sub-postmasters. The case, still unsettled, found that the IT system was unreliable and that faults in the system caused discrepancies in branch accounts which were not the responsibility of the postmasters themselves. [[Peter Fraser (judge)|Mr Justice Fraser]], the judge hearing the case, noted that Fujitsu had given "wholly unsatisfactory evidence" and there had been a "lack of accuracy on the part of Fujitsu witnesses in their evidence".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Slingo |first=Jemma |title=Post Office 'attacked and disparaged' sub postmasters, judge finds |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/post-office-attacked-and-disparaged-sub-postmasters-judge-finds/5102542.article |access-date=January 10, 2020 |website=Law Gazette |archive-date=January 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122093545/https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/post-office-attacked-and-disparaged-sub-postmasters-judge-finds/5102542.article |url-status=live }}</ref> Following his concerns, Fraser sent a file to the [[Director of Public Prosecutions]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Slingo |first=Jemma |title=Post Office IT contractor faces prosecution after judge's 'grave concerns' about evidence |url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/post-office-it-contractor-faces-prosecution-after-judges-grave-concerns-about-evidence/5102540.article |access-date=January 10, 2020 |website=Law Gazette |archive-date=January 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113015324/https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/post-office-it-contractor-faces-prosecution-after-judges-grave-concerns-about-evidence/5102540.article |url-status=live }}</ref>

Fujitsu was also found to have pressured the UK government to sign off the controversial and faulty IT system that, as a result of its faulty operation, resulted in numerous UK postmasters and sub-postmasters being accused falsely, and subsequently convicted of theft, false accounting and fraud, with consequences including imprisonment and monetary reparations. Of the hundreds of people affected, as of January 2024 only around 1 in 9 of those convicted have had their convictions overturned, whereas others have died due to the length of time that has elapsed, or have taken their own lives in the wake of their wrongful convictions. Although there has been some media coverage of organised legal appeals by groups of those affected, the matter has recently gained enhanced attention by mainstream media and the wider public as a whole, and is currently being acted upon by authorities in an attempt to accelerate and automate the clearing of the names of all those wrongly convicted, who until now were required to launch their own legal appeals in order to have their names cleared.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fujitsu put pressure on UK government to sign off troubled Horizon project, public inquiry hears {{!}} Computer Weekly |url=https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Fujitsu-put-pressure-on-UK-government-to-sign-off-troubled-Horizon-project-public-inquiry-hears |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=ComputerWeekly.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/08/ministers-clear-names-victims-post-office-horizon-accounting-it-scandal | title=Ministers scramble to clear names of victims of Post Office Horizon scandal | newspaper=The Guardian | date=January 8, 2024 | last1=Crerar | first1=Pippa }}</ref>