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Video surveillance market to reach $44 billion, fuelled by smart cameras and AI – IDC – 21 July 2020
The video surveillance camera market will grow to $44 billion by 2025, as smart camera systems and analytic software enables new use in law enforcement and physical security.
Aussies lose more than $1.2 million as scammers pounce on COVID-19 vulnerability – 21 July 2020
Thousands of people have been swindled by people impersonating government officials during the coronavirus pandemic, swindling unsuspecting victims out of more than $1.2 million in just six months.
No jury for Gatto defamation trial after lawyer bungle – 19 July 2020
Mr Gatto launched legal action in April last year over claims an ABC story had falsely accused him of threatening to kill gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo. However, the Supreme Court of Victoria has ruled that a defamation trial due to start next week between Mr Gatto and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation will not be heard before a jury, but by a judge alone, after his lawyers bungled the paperwork.
ASIC’s two-year wait before Regal raid – 18 July 2020
The corporate regulator spent almost two years plotting its investigation into Regal Funds Management before it called in the Australian Federal Police to raid the high-profile hedge fund’s office in Sydney.
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