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What role do companies play in the free speech debate?
Will the next company to get hacked be as up front as the last one?
And happy birthday, internet. Why I remember when you were just a node …
NZ’s Domain Name Commission wins appeal in lawsuit against US company
New Zealand's Domain Name Commission has had its court order upheld by a higher Court in its US lawsuit against the company DomainTools.
Looking for common ground on facial recognition vs the right to privacy
Facial recognition software is the latest battleground between privacy rights advocates and law enforcement agencies. Is there any common ground between the two parties?
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Social media companies want us to like them... so they're having a crack at a public relations campaign.
Plus, privacy is important, which is why British Airways will have to cough up $NZ357 milli…
GDPR and cyber security in action
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has announced that it intends to fine British Airways £183.39m for breaching the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Digital disappearing acts
The concept of ownership in a digital world is once again under the spotlight following Microsoft's move this month to close its books category. Those who had purchased ebooks will get a refund, havin…
Little and Large: the justice minister and the search engine
The Minister of Justice, Andrew Little, has welcomed Google's apparent change of heart over the leaking of details identifying the killer of British backpacker Grace Millane.
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Cellphones don't give you cancer, but they do enable millions of people to look at social media sites that tell them cellphones do.
Google says it won't make any changes following its court suppres…
Advertising tech may be breaking the law: UK report
Social media advertising is coming under threat from EU and UK regulators following a report that suggests much of their data gathering is illegal.
The taxman cometh, albeit slowly
Finance ministers from the G20 nations have agreed to press ahead with plans to reform the global tax regime to limit the amount of tax avoidance currently carried out by some of our largest tech comp…
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Well, that went well.
First of all, a user of YouTube (owned by Google) in Brazil discovered that her video of her daughter playing in the backyard was being viewed hundreds of thousands of times. …
Section 252
After a lot of excitement and visions of Tom Cruise abseiling in to Treasury to steal the NOC list, I mean Budget 2019 documents, it seems instead that someone was trying out search terms in the websi…
Govt use of algorithms under scrutiny
A new independent agency that oversees the use of algorithms in government decision-making is required to counter unintended bias. That's the recommendation from researchers at the University of Otago…
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Whether Chinese telco-equipment maker Huawei is a puppet of a Communist regime or a pawn in the international machinations of two super powers is pretty much immaterial at the moment.
The company …
Caution urged on introducing new laws to combat 'deepfakes'
It can take less than 30 mins for a skilled person using consumer-level tech to create a realistic video and audio recording of the Prime Minister that is completely untrue. But that is not a reason t…
Huawei vs the US Govt: is this a knock-out blow?
Huawei's problems with the US administration have turned from bad to worse following the US President's decision to sign an executive order banning the use of telecommunications equipment from Chine…
Regulating social media: lessons from Britain’s first highway code
Social media has risen from nowhere to become the dominant media platform on the planet in a short space of time, but at a cost. What can we learn from other rapidly developed technologies and how the…
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It looks like it's the end of the line for Pond, the government's resource sharing service for teachers.
Part of Network for Learning (N4L), Pond was supposed to be a leading-edge social network wh…
NZ and France seek to end use of social media for acts of terrorism
New Zealand and France are to lead international efforts to figure out how to manage the promotion of terrorism and extremism via social media channels.
The meeting is to be held in May as part of …
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Sir Paul Callaghan said we need to build an environment where talent wants to live, where we have 100 companies at the $1 billion mark that aren't farms, and that we absolutely can build this second s…
