Day Headlines in Computers News: 2026-06-16
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Scottish minister clarifies police facial-recognition approach (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-16 11:52:00)
The Scottish government has confirmed its intention to ensure police use of facial recognition is lawful before deployments start taking place, unlike in England and Wales where the technology has been rolled out in a ‘legal vacuum’ without any formal scrutiny or debate
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MPs call for UK government to back sovereign IT (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-16 11:24:00)
Amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill calls for the government to publish a ‘digital sovereignty strategy’ to promote domestic technology
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NHS trusts operating on fewer patients with Palantir FDP, warns Foxglove (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-16 09:58:00)
Around 30% of English hospitals that use Palantir’s FDP tools for scheduling are carrying out fewer procedures than before adoption, according to data from campaign group Foxglove
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Interview: Ashwin Ballal, CIO, Freshworks (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-16 07:18:00)
After a career in marketing, engineering, product and operations, a CIO role seemed unlikely for Ashwin Ballal – until he tried it
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UK data regulator slammed over lack of action on complaints (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-16 06:32:00)
The UK data regulator is being threatened with legal action after it was accused of ‘ignoring’ thousands of data protection complaints, with critics describing its new approach to complaint triage and investigation as akin to a ‘digital bin’ for the public’s concerns
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The great datacentre backlash: The industry response (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-16 05:45:00)
In part two of a two-part series looking at attitudes to datacentres, we look at how developers and operators have responded to the wave of anti-datacentre sentiment sweeping through communities and what their plan is to avoid further escalation
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XR market rewriting its own rules as smart glasses use surges (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-16 04:56:00)
Research finds that eyewear-form-factor devices are no longer the niche in extended reality, they are the market as devices encompassing AR, XR, MR and VR grew 86% annually in Q1 2026
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Cisco: 36 months to modernise networks before AI overwhelms capacity (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-16 04:56:00)
Research finds capacity and performance the top network challenge for UK organisations, with 81% of respondents saying their network does not have room to house evolving AI demands
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Amnesty calls for ban on AI risk-profiling systems (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-16 04:30:00)
Amnesty International says AI-driven risk profiling systems are discriminatory and may lead to misleading results that violate international human rights law
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Ineffable Intelligence strikes Google Cloud deal for Vera Rubin GPU power (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-16 01:00:00)
London-based ‘anti-LLM’ developer led by AlphaGo founder David Silver selects Google Cloud Vera Rubin GPU infrastructure to build reinforcement learning ‘superlearners’