Giant Neanderthal AI-generated Image,
Reuters, 2023.
On the Frontier: Contemporary Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Privacy, a talk with Allyn Robins (Brainbox Institute), Office of the Privacy Commissioner's Privacy Week,
YouTube,
RNZ Morning Report, 2023.
Online scams,
Stuff, 2023.
Are our phones listeing to us?
Stuff, 2023.
Donald Trump AI-generated Image,
Reuters, 2023.
Matū Iramoe Capital Raise,
Newsroom, 2023.
AI Open Letter,
Newshub, 2023.
Deep Tech Investment and Matū, The Spinoff's
Business is Boring podcast, 2023.
Orange Juice,
The Spinoff, 2023.
Social Media Algorithms,
Newshub, 2023.
Navigating the Crisis: How Governments used Intelligence for Decision-Making During the COVID-19 Pandemic,
International Public Policy Observatory, 2022.
"Paint by Numbers", an article on data profiling, Consumer NZ, December 2022.
Generative AI and Impacts,
TVNZ One News,
RNZ The Detail, Newshub,
Stuff 2022-2023.
UniNews Profile, University of Auckland, 2022.
Deepfakes and Generative Media,
Newshub Nation, 2022.
Social Media for Researchers, Science Media Centre, 2022.
OPC Biometrics Regulation,
Submission, 2022.
MOJ Notification Rules for Third-Party Personal Information Transfers,
Submission,
Newsroom,
Twitter, 2022.
Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill,
Koi Tū Submission, 2022.
Christchurch Call and Social Media Research,
RNZ Morning Report, 2022.
MFAT Proposals to Enhance Export Controls,
Submission, 2022.
Countdown trialling Bodycams,
RNZ The Panel, 2022.
Voluntary Internet Filter for Extermist Content,
Newsroom, 2022.
Waka Kotahi Smart Camera Trials,
Newsroom, 2022.
The Second Layer of the Internet,
The Spinoff, 2022.
Oral submission to the Petitions Committee on the
Petition to Act Now on Killer Robots, 2022.
Publicly-owned CCTV cameras,
RNZ,
NZ Herald, 2022.
Wordle??,
Buzzfeed News,
NZ Herald,
Newstalk ZB,
CNN International, 2022.
Digital Contact Tracing, Recordkeeping, Vaccination Certificates, and COVID-19, Koi Tū - the Centre for Informed Futures, 2020-2022
-
The Trade-offs for Digital Data and Contact Tracing
-
Hard Decisions in Digital Contact Tracing
-
Digital Giants Enter Digital Contact Tracing
-
On Fragmentation of Digital Contact Tracing Registers
- Invited Talk: Tech for Contact Tracing (with Dr Ayesha Verall and Dr Susan Jack),
Otago Global Health Institute Covid-19 Masterclass [
Recording]
- Public Lecture: Digital Technology for Contact Tracing,
Koi Tū [
Slides,
Recording]
- Lecture for LAWS442 (Special Topic: Covid-19 and the Law) at Victoria University of Wellington
- An
open letter about legislative protections for NZ COVID Tracer app data
- An article reflecting on the
one year anniversary of the NZ COVID Tracer app published on Newsroom
- A panel on
Privacy and COVID-19 for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2021 Privacy Forum (Video on
YouTube)
-
Surveillance and Privacy during COVID-19 and the Next Normal (
YouTube), Singapore Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS).
- A keynote presentation at the Records and Information Management Professionals Association
"Building Trust" conference
- A presentation at the
Workshop on Proximity and Location Data, hosted by the EU-funded PANELFIT project
- A second
open letter about legislative protections for contact tracing (including NZ COVID Tracer app) data
-
On Mandatory Recordkeeping for Contact Tracing reacting to an announced policy change
-
What's Wrong with Bluetooth Tracing? investigating a lack of usage of BT during the delta outbreak
- A third
open letter signed by over a hundred academics and civil society organisations calling for legislative protections for contact tracing records, which led to
legislative changes to make it an offence to collect, use, or disclose contact tracing data for any purpose other than contact tracing.
- Presentations to the
University of the Third Age, the Open Source Hub, the Wellington
Privacy Officers Round Table, and the South Island Privacy Network.
- Media (in approx. chronological order):
NZ Herald,
RNZ Morning Report and
RNZ Article,
Stuff,
Newsroom,
Magic Talk Radio,
InternetNZ panel,
Newsroom,
article written for
The Spinoff,
RNZ Nine to Noon,
Newsroom,
The Spinoff,
Stuff,
Stuff,
Newsroom,
The Spinoff,
RNZ The Panel,
RNZ Nine to Noon,
The Detail,
The Project,
Stuff,
The Spinoff,
Wired UK,
Stuff,
The Correspondent,
Stuff,
Newsroom,
Newsroom,
Stuff,
iStart,
Koi Tū,
NZ Herald,
RNZ Lately,
NZ Herald,
Newsroom,
NZ Herald,
Newsroom,
RNZ Lately,
RNZ Lately,
Science Media Centre,
The Spinoff,
Science Media Centre,
RNZ The Panel,
NZ Herald,
Stuff,
RNZ Lately,
Newsroom,
RNZ Lately,
NZ Herald,
Newstalk ZB,
RNZ The Panel,
RNZ Lately,
NZ Herald,
Science Media Centre,
NZ Herald,
Newstalk ZB Bulletin,
Newsroom,
Newstalk ZB,
RNZ Morning Report,
RNZ,
RNZ,
NewstalkZB Bulletin,
RNZ Lately,
The Guardian,
Stuff,
RNZ Lately,
RNZ,
RNZ Bulletin,
Newstalk ZB,
Stuff,
TVNZ,
The Spinoff Bulletin,
North and South (Closed by Damian Christie),
Science Media Centre,
RNZ Midday Report,
Newshub,
NZ Herald,
RNZ Lately,
NZ Herald,
NZ Herald,
TVNZ,
RNZ,
Otago Daily Times,
NewstalkZB,
NZ Herald,
NZ Herald,
BusinessDesk,
The Spinoff, Magic Talk Radio,
ACT Party,
NZ Herald,
Stuff,
BusinessDesk,
Newstalk ZB Bulletin,
NZ Herald,
Stuff,
Science Media Centre,
Newshub,
Otago Daily Times,
RNZ,
NZ Herald,
RNZ Nights,
NZ Herald,
NewstalkZB,
Newstalk ZB,
RNZ Checkpoint,
NZ Herald,
NZ Herald,
Newsroom,
NZ Herald,
NewstalkZB,
NZ Herald,
NZ Herald,
TVNZ Q&A,
BusinessDesk,
iStart,
Bay of Plenty Times,
NZ Herald,
RNZ The Panel,
Bay of Plenty Times,
NZ Herald,
iStart,
Science Media Centre,
The Spinoff,
Stuff,
RNZ Midday Report,
RNZ Checkpoint,
RNZ Morning Report followed by
Min Chris Hipkins,
Newsroom,
RNZ,
NZ Herald,
RNZ,
Stuff Explainer,
Stuff,
NZ Herald,
NZ Herald,
NZ Herald,
Science Media Centre,
NZ Herald,
RNZ Morning Report,
Newshub,
RNZ,
China Daily,
Science Media Centre,
NZ Herald,
RNZ The Panel,
NZ Herald,
Newshub,
article written for
The Spinoff,
TVNZ,
NZ Herald,
Newshub,
Stuff,
article written for
The Conversation,
Newshub,
BusinessDesk,
NZ Herald,
Stuff,
BusinessDesk,
RNZ Midday Report,
Science Media Centre,
NZ Herald,
Stuff,
TVNZ,
NZ Herald,
RNZ Lately,
Newstalk ZB,
Stuff,
RNZ Morning Report,
NZ Herald,
Newshub,
Newshub,
NZ Herald,
RNZ Lately,
Science Media Centre, article written for
The Conversation,
Scoop,
RNZ,
RNZ The Panel, Newshub Radio,
Stuff,
Westport Times,
Newshub,
Seven Sharp,
Stuff,
Stuff,
One News, TVNZ Breakfast (Mon 23 Aug 2021),
Science Media Centre,
Newshub,
The Guardian,
The Spinoff,
The ASEAN Post,
Newsroom,
Newshub,
Scoop,
Stuff,
95bFM,
Legal Lowdown on the Lockdown Podcast,
NZ Herald,
AsiaPacific Infrastructure,
NZ Herald,
Stuff,
Industrial Safety News,
Newsroom,
The Spinoff,
NZ Herald,
Stuff,
One News,
RNZ,
BusinessDesk,
Stuff,
NZ Council for Civil Liberties,
1of200 Podcast,
NZ Herald,
NZ Herald,
Newsroom,
Privacy Foundation,
RNZ Nine to Noon,
Newshub, article written for
The Conversation,
SciBlogs,
Stuff,
The Spinoff,
Otago Daily Times,
RNZ Morning Report,
Stuff,
RNZ Morning Report,
RNZ Morning Report,
TVNZ,
NZ Herald,
TVNZ Q+A,
RNZ Nine to Noon,
Consumer NZ, Māori TV,
Newsroom,
1of200 Podcast,
Stuff,
SkyKiwi,
Science Media Centre,
Stuff,
Stuff,
Stuff,
RNZ,
Stuff,
Newstalk ZB,
Science Media Centre,
RNZ The Panel,
Newshub,
Stuff,
RNZ,
The Spinoff,
TVNZ Breakfast (6 October 2021),
RNZ Morning Report,
Otago Daily Times,
Newshub,
Stuff,
RNZ,
SkyKiwi,
NZ Herald,
One News (11 October 2021),
95bFM,
Newsroom,
Stuff,
Stuff,
Science Media Centre,
Stuff,
NewstalkZB,
Science Media Centre, Newshub Radio (27 October 2021),
Stuff,
The Spinoff,
RNZ The Panel,
Science Media Centre,
NZ Herald,
Stuff,
The Spinoff,
Stuff,
Stuff,
Industrial Safety News,
Stuff,
NZ Herald,
Stuff,
Stuff,
NZ Herald,
Stuff,
RNZ First Up,
Science Media Centre,
Stuff,
RNZ,
Newshub,
RNZ Nine to Noon,
Stuff, Newstalk ZB (18 November 2021),
Magic Talk,
BusinessDesk,
Newshub, TVNZ Breakfast (18 November 2021),
Indian Weekender,
95bFM,
Stuff,
RNZ Midday Report, Newstalk ZB,
One News,
One News,
Newsroom,
Health Informatics NZ,
RNZ,
Tikanga in Technology,
Newsroom,
Stuff, article written for
The Conversation,
Stuff,
Te Hiku Radio,
Newshub,
RNZ,
Stuff,
NZ Herald,
The Spinoff,
NZ Herald,
Newsroom,
Science Media Centre,
Newsroom,
Stuff,
Stuff,
NewstalkZB,
RNZ The Panel, Newstalk ZB, Newstalk ZB,
RNZ Morning Report, Newstalk ZB,
RNZ Bulletin,
RNZ,
Newshub,
Science Media Centre,
BusinessDesk,
NZ Herald,
Science Media Centre,
RNZ Morning Report, Mediaworks News,
RNZ First Up,
Science Media Centre,
NZ Herald, Magic Talk Radio,
Stuff,
NZ Herald,
Newstalk ZB,
95bFM,
Stuff,
Bay of Plenty Times,
The Spinoff,
RNZ The Panel,
Newshub,
Science Media Centre,
BusinessDesk,
Science Media Centre,
NZ Herald,
RNZ,
The Spinoff,
NZ Doctor, article written for
Newsroom,
TVNZ,
RNZ,
Newshub,
NZ Herald,
Stuff
Video Holes,
Stuff, 2021.
Prime Minister Deepfake,
NZ Herald, 2021.
Facial Recognition Technology: Considerations for use in Policing, publication of
a report by A/Prof Nessa Lynch and me,
Scoop,
Amnesty International,
Radio New Zealand,
Biometric Update, 2021.
Privacy and Surveillance,
Stuff,
Stuff (shorter version), October 2021.
Facebook rebranding to Meta and shutting down facial recognition,
Stuff,
95bFM, 2021.
Our Changing World -
These Data Days,
The Details Behind the Data, RNZ Podcast, October 2021.
A panel discussion for the University of Auckland's
Aotearoa Future Shapers series, on Artificial Insights: big data for a Covid world, September 2021.
Digital Technology and Risk in the Public Sector, NUS Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, 2021.
Dialogue on Autonomous Weapons and Human Control, Parliament, August 2021. [
Speech]
A
Twitter thread on personal information held by political parties, using the Privacy Act to request that information, and then filing complaints when that information has not been provided, initiated because of this
Stuff article about the Labour Connect system, 2020-2021.
Interview with
Marietje Schaake on Digital Trade, Cyber Policy & Regulating the Tech Giants, INGSA Horizon Series, 2021.
PatronCheck in Bars,
RNZ Midday Report,
RNZ, 2021.
NZ's Cybersecurity Resilience, Newsroom, 2021.
Portfolio Management: Learning from Experienced Investors, NZ Entrepreneur, 2021.
NZ Police Facial Recognition Technology Review,
Police Press Release,
TVNZ,
RNZ, 2021.
Written and
Oral Submissions to the Governance and Administration Select Committee on the
Films, Videos, and Publications Classification (Urgent Interim Classification of Publications and Prevention of Online Harm) Amendment Bill,
Newsroom, 2021. The controversial internet filter aspects of the Bill were later
removed as a result of submissions [
Select Committee Report], and improvements made with specific reference to my submissions [
DIA Report].
The Facebook Algorithm as a (Funhouse) Mirror,
Newsroom,
RNZ The Detail, 2021.
Exploring the Drivers and Barriers to Uptake for Digital Contact Tracing,
University of Auckland Pandemics Hub, 2021.
Editor of
Shouting Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Ethics, and Policy in New Zealand, BWB Texts, 2020.
-
On the internet, freedom for some never means freedom for all, an excerpt from Kathy Errington and Anjum Rahman's chapter on Reducing Online Harm
-
Techweek panel, moderated by Dr. David Hall and featuring Anjum Rahman, Kathy Errington, Donna Cormack, and Curtis Barnes on their chapters about reducing online harm, Māori data sovereignty, and disinformation
-
NZ a likely target for foreign interference ahead of election, an interview between Curtis Barnes and Jack Tame on Q + A
-
Q&A: Do we need a minister for misinformation?, an interview between Jamie Morton and me in the NZ Herald
-
Online voting pros and cons, an interview between Stephen Judd and Kathryn Ryan on RNZ Nine to Noon
-
Anderson's Odyssey #15, a podcast recording with Jacob Anderson and me
-
Vic Books for Breakfast (13 August), on RadioActive FM (Wellington)
-
A short review by Sarah Putt at ComputerWorld
-
A short summary written by me for Tohatoha
-
Puppetmasters or automata, a short review by Ben Reid at Memia
-
'Download the app, then use it’ leaves too many of us out of contact tracing efforts, an article by Anna and Kelly Pendergrast on digital inclusion and digital contact tracing for The Spinoff
-
Whose data is it anyway?, on data colonialism and data sovereignty by Tahu Kukutai, Donna Cormack, and Chris Cormack for The Spinoff Ātea
-
What Tino Rangatiratanga Means in a Digital World, including a panel discussion alongside co-authors Caleb Moses and Anjum Rahman for Newsroom
-
Online privacy: are we worried about the wrong things?, an article by Hadyn Green for Consumer magazine
-
Personal Data the new oil, an article by Farah Hancock in Newsroom about data privacy and consumer rights
-
Can we fight online fascism like we fought Covid-19?, featuring a discussion between Serena Chen and Marc Daalder for Newsroom
-
A Facebook election fought on feelings, not facts, an op-ed by Kathy Errington for the Sunday Star Times
- Sovereignty in a digital world
Part 2 and
Part 3, including comment from Caleb Moses and Tahu Kukutai for Newsroom
-
Netsafe fake news campaign sponsored by Facebook like 'taking money from the devil to warn people about the devil', including comment from me for Stuff/Sunday Star Times
-
Online voting isn't the be-all and end-all, an extract from Stephen Judd's chapter for Stuff and the Dominion Post
-
Shouting Zeros & Ones Book Club at NetHui 2020, with a series of
author videos and a Q+A session
- A
book review by Terence Eden
- A talk at StatsNZ with Briony Blackmore, Caleb Moses, and Anna Pendergrast
- A
review by Peter Hassan for
Tui Motu magazine
Facial Recognition Technologies Ethical and Legal Framework Report,
RNZ,
Bay of Plenty Times, 2020.
Police Stocktake of Use of Emerging Technologies,
RNZ, article written with Kristiann Allen for
The Spinoff,
RNZ, 2020-2021.
NVIDIA's Face Compression Algorithm,
NZ Herald, 2020.
Financial Modelling for Early-stage Deep Tech Companies, MacDiarmid Institute and Return On Science, 2020.
Government Algorithm Charter,
StatsNZ Submission,
Newsroom, 2019/2020.
New Zealand Police and Clearview,
Newsroom,
RNZ,
RNZ The Panel,
TVNZ, 2020.
Countering Violent Extremist Content Online,
DIA Submission,
Stuff, 2019-2020.
Evaluating Commercial Potential, MacDiarmid Institute Annual Symposium, 2019.
Idea Articulation, Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, 2019.
Future of Work, MacDiarmid Institute Alumni Event, 2019.
Commercial Data Collection / Surveillance, COMMS208 Guest Lecture, University of Auckland, 2019.
Auckland Transport's $4.5m plan could mean 8000 cameras watching the city,
Radio New Zealand, 2019. [
Interview Audio]
Towards Practical and Ethical Smart Video Analytics, Festival of Doubt, Victoria University of Wellington, 2019.
Protecting Privacy by Blocking the Creepy Human Factor, Office of the Privacy Commissioner (NZ), 2019.
Privacy-Affirming Architectures and Cameras, Lunch and Learn, Auror, 2019.
Privacy-Affirming Video Analytics and Camera Surveillance, Lunchtime Talk, ESR (Institute of Environmental Science and Research), 2018.
Algorithmic Bias and Discrimination and Source Code, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Round 24 Meeting, 2018.
Protecting Privacy Rights through Trade Agreements,
Alternative and Progressive Trade Hui, 2018.
Science Communication, Chiasma Chats, University of Auckland, 2018.
New boundaries of camera-based surveillance, Office of the Privacy Commissioner's
PrivacyLive Seminar Series, 2018. [
YouTube]
"I'm looking at you buddy! Yes, Big Brother is everywhere",
Raising the Bar Auckland, 2018. [
SoundCloud]
Privacy and Surveillance, for
Ready, Steady, Learn on 95bFM, 2018.
Data Privacy, with Ryan Kurte and Ben Tan, for the
Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor's Science Policy Exchange, 2018. [
Slides]
Submission on the Privacy Bill (2018).
Fire Awareness and Intervention Programme (FAIP) Online Booklets, Fire and Emergency Services New Zealand, 2018.
A Technology Assessment Framework for New Zealand, with Guy Collier, Ryan Kurte, Jerome Ng, and Ben Tan, for the
Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor's Science Policy Exchange, 2017.
The Language of Immigration, a chapter in
Fair Borders? Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century, David Hall (ed), BWB Texts, 2017.
- An edited extract featured in
The Spinoff
- An interview about some of the concepts in the chapter with
Q+A (TVNZ)
- Panel talks as part of the Festival of Cultures, hosted by the
Palmerston North Central Library + PNGHS
- A breakout session at the
NZ Educational Administration and Leadership Society 2018 annual conference [
Slides]
- Panel talks as part of the BWB Winter Talk series, hosted at the Royal Society of New Zealand + Wellington College + Auckland University of Technology
Politics and the polls, a panel discussion at the University of Auckland Faculty of Arts, October 2017
Mashed Calculus and Differential Potatoes (Politics, Statistics, Bikes), 2014-
- Including our A Policy A Day series, in
2014 and
2017
Young People, Civics, and Political Literacy at
The Briefing Papers (AUT), 2016.
The Co-op (Politics), 2015-
Chips of New Zealand (Chips), 2015-16
Solving the World's Most Pressing Problems (about Diplomacy Competition) at
Education Gazette (MinEdu), 2014.
Mashed Calculus and Differential Potatoes (Blog)
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