by admin | Nov 6, 2018 | News & Analysis
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool called “gait recognition” software. It uses people’s body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden from cameras. China’s artificial intelligence...
by admin | Nov 4, 2018 | News & Analysis
In the final months of the Obama administration, US giant Walmart had to pay nearly $US1 billion and accept a guilty plea to resolve a foreign bribery investigation. Barclays, faced demands that it pay nearly $US7 billion to settle civil claims, and the Royal Bank of...
by admin | Nov 4, 2018 | News & Analysis
NSW police and crime agencies are preparing to use a new national facial recognition system, to rapidly match pictures of people captured on CCTV with their driver’s licence photo. Under new laws the federal and state governments will be able to access data and...
by admin | Nov 2, 2018 | News & Analysis
ASIC has obtained a court order to freeze the assets of Goldsky Asset Management and its founder, Ken Grace.The regulator alleges that Grace operated an unlicensed financial services company which raised $16 million from over 50 investors. ASIC then alleged that...
by admin | Oct 18, 2018 | News & Analysis
A US Treasury Department official has been charged with leaking confidential documents relating to US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort, the Russian embassy and others to a reporter from digital media company BuzzFeed....
by admin | Oct 17, 2018 | News & Analysis
Key conspirators charged in the Plutus tax fraud, allegedly secretly controlled a separate network of recruitment firms and payroll companies, that were wound up. They owed the tax office Pay as you go tax and GST....
