Day Headlines in Computers News: 2026-06-19
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Civil society: Police facial recognition must be strictly limited (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-19 11:59:00)
Digital rights groups map out ‘minimum, necessary’ human rights protections to be included in UK government’s upcoming legal framework for police facial recognition -
Chilling effects of surveillance threaten democracy, UN finds (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-19 10:30:00)
United Nations study finds the chilling effects of pervasive digital surveillance in modern life undermines an entire web of interconnected and interdependent human rights, representing a systemic threat to democratic norms and political participation -
nLighten completes £15m refurbishment of Bristol ‘edge’ datacentre (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-19 10:04:00)
European datacentre operator doubles potential AI-ready power capacity to 1.2MW with dry cooling at Bristol site as part of a wider £100m-plus UK modernisation programme -
Tesco offloads VMware and CA software as Broadcom case rolls on (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-19 09:08:00)
The contract and licensing dispute with Broadcom over its right to use VMware and CA Technologies has led retailer Tesco to begin an accelerated migration -
UK information commissioner John Edwards resigns after HR investigation (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-19 07:47:00)
The UK’s information commissioner has resigned following an HR investigation, saying there were occasions when he exercised ‘poor judgement’ and made ‘inappropriate attempts at humour’ -
Google Cloud boosts for enterprise agentic at London Summit (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-19 05:34:00)
Hyperscaler prioritises process automation in UK showcase, with frontier models, agent platforms and development tools to the fore, with customers such as Unilever in the spotlight -
4G persists as 5G availability and usage gap widens across Europe (ComputerWeekly.com 2026-06-19 05:20:00)
Research reveals that the vast majority of Europe’s connectivity is still over 4G, and while the performance uplift of 5G Standalone is real, deployment in the region is localised to just 11 networks