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Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests

Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offendersGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than a million people have had their faces scanned in a trial of real-time facial recognition technology in Western Australia, resulting in 122

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‘Extremely disappointed’: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university report

WA paid Deloitte $166,000 for flawed feasibility study on merging the University of Western Australia, Curtin university and Murdoch universityGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Western Australian government has said it is “extremely disappointed” and is seeking an “expedited” cost recovery from Deloitte after errors were discovered in a report

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Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition

Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AIGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 15,000 sq metre datacentre near Perth will no longer go ahead after the developer withdrew plans amid community opposition over its impact on culturally significant sites.The three-storey, 120-megawatt GreenSquare datacentre

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