Curtin University Uyghur, Tibetan facial recognition study

A research study (pdf) by a professor at Curtin University, Australia, on 'Chinese ethnical groups' that used facial recognition to identify  Uyghurs, Tibetans and Koreans has been found to have breached the university's ethics standards. 

Researcher Wanquan Liu published the study, which he co-authored with three other academics at Chinese universities and was co-funded by the Chinese government, without the consent of its subjects, and without the university's knowledge. 

Liu has resigned, and moved to a university in China. The university is overhauling its informal academic research approval procedures and has asked publisher Wiley to retract the study.