Software maker now requires answer on whether use of audit records is related to action against post office workers
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Fujitsu has begun forcing the Post Office to disclose whether Horizon data requests will be used to investigate a branch owner-operator for “any impropriety”, prompting objections from the state-owned body’s executives.
The development emerged in documents shown to the public inquiry into how hundreds of branch owner-operators were wrongfully pursued through the courts based on evidence from Horizon that was later found to be unreliable.