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Data Security and New Zealand
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Data Security and New Zealand

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities We are now over a month on from the Waikato DHB ransomware attack and the public are still completely in the dark as to how much of their personal health data has made its way to

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Do You Really Want Jeff Bezos Reading to Your Kids?

Do You Really Want Jeff Bezos Reading to Your Kids?

Orwell and Huxley offered differing, yet equally frightening, glimpses of our future. Each were, in their way, more prescient than they might have dreaded. Orwell, for instance, envisioned the “telescreen”, which not only beams a constant diet of propaganda, but spies on the citizens of Oceania. Huxley, separately, imagined a

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YouTube Apologizes, Reverses ‘Permanent Ban’ on Pro-censorship Pressure Group Right Wing Watch

rt.com Hours after banning the account of Right Wing Watch for allegedly violating their terms of service, YouTube has apologized and reinstated the Democrat pressure group arguing for censorship of “dangerous behavior” online. The group, which says it “monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations,” found

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Pattern Developing of Failings in Cyber Security

Pattern Developing of Failings in Cyber Security

Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson Yesterday I successfully triggered an urgent debate in Parliament about the cyber security breaches at Waikato Hospital. It follows documents from Waikato District Health Board being released onto the dark web after the ransomware attack that crippled five hospitals’ IT systems in May. What’

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The Microchip Shortage: Rethink Tech Reliance

Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF

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YouTube Blocks Channel Highlighting China’s Human Rights Violations

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. A video channel dedicated to highlighting human rights violations in China has been blocked

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Is This the End of Google?

Is This the End of Google?

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Killer Drones: That’ll End Well, I’m Sure

Killer Drones: That’ll End Well, I’m Sure

Australian author Sean McMullen’s Greatwinter novels are set in the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Victoria (no, not Melbourne in lockdown). There are no electrical machines because orbiting robotic battle satellites immediately vaporise any sign of electromagnetic activity. Dare to flick on the simplest circuit and instant, merciless death strikes from

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Minister Not Plugged into Community Signal Struggles
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Minister Not Plugged into Community Signal Struggles

It is unacceptable that a town just 10 minutes from Greymouth has such poor digital connectivity that they are not able to even receive Civil Defence warnings, National’s Digital Economy and Communications spokesperson Melissa Lee says. Ms Lee has been advocating for rural communities which are being left behind

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Twitter Mob Goes After Fiction Writers

Twitter Mob Goes After Fiction Writers

As we all know, Twitter mobs have been going after people for “wrong-think”. It seems that they’re no longer content with that and are now going after fiction authors for “wrong-write”. Reclaim The Net explains. Social media outrage at fictional books is causing contrite writers to revise their lines

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The Increase in Ransomware Attacks during the COVID-19 Pandemic May Lead to a New Internet

The Increase in Ransomware Attacks during the COVID-19 Pandemic May Lead to a New Internet

Michael Parent Simon Fraser University David R. Beatty University of Toronto An internationally-recognized expert in corporate governance, focusing on information technology and cybersecurity for Boards, Directors and CEOs. Michael Parent is a Fellow at the David and Sharon Johnston Centre for Corporate Governance, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

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Millennials a Potential Force Next Election

Eliora The National Party need to shift their ‘Tech Sector and Opportunities’ policy from fifth and make it their Number One Policy. Smart people should communicate with this huge group of tech-savvy young people who have grown up in the digital world to encourage votes for National. Last year there

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