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Curtin University said that the study published by the academic Wanquan Liu and co-authors at Chinese universities in 2018 was conducted without its knowledge and had breached its ethics code. “Ethics approval should have been sought by the academic,” the university said in a statement to Reuters in response to a request for comment on the outcome of its internal investigation into the matter. An Australian university said on Wednesday that it has asked journal publisher Wiley Online Library to retract a research study conducted by a former faculty member that helps Chinese facial recognition software better identify ethnic Uyghurs....
