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Facebook investing in live streaming safeguards following New Zealand attacks
April 1, 2019 Featured Tech News, General Tech
Over the last few years, Facebook has been pushing for live streaming to become a key part of the social network. Unfortunately, this feature isn't always used with good intentions in mind. This year alone, two mass shootings in New Zealand unfolded live on Facebook, with the resulting videos being …
New Zealand doesn't see loot boxes as gambling
December 12, 2017 General Tech, Software & Gaming
The loot box debacle deepened last week as a US lawmaker geared up for some much needed changes surrounding the system. It seems the same can't be said for New Zealand, however, as the country's government has determined that loot boxes aren't classed as gambling. Gamasutra broke the news via …
Julian Assange to speak at NZ show using remote tech in February
November 30, 2016 Channel
Using similar technology to Edward Snowden with his tele-screen remote talks, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will be making an appearance at the No More Secrets, No More Lies lecture at the Aukland University of Technology, in New Zealand. Set to take place in mid-February, the talk will allow for a …
Dotcom case ends, U.S. attempts last-minute evidence submission
The long awaited extradition trial of legally-embattled Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants has finally come to close, but not before the prosecution attempted to submit a last-minute piece of evidence, despite its side of the case having ended weeks ago. Regardless, this marks the beginning of the end of a …
US government seizes Dotcom's millions again
March 27, 2015 Channel
Kim Dotcom has been legally embattled with US and New Zealand authorities for over three years. During that time he's launched services and political entities and even found time to rank as one of the best FPS players in the world, but it hasn't been all smooth sailing. One of …
NZ journalist promises big spying revelations
March 4, 2015 Security
It's no secret at this point that every member of the Five Eyes spying network (essentially every English speaking nation) has been snooping on not only their citizens, but everyone else's over the past few years, under the guise of anti-terrorism efforts. Despite this though, new revelations every few months …
Kim Dotcom guests quizzed on NZ arrival
January 19, 2015 Channel
If you get invited to the Kim Dotcom mansion, get ready to spend some time at the airport. Recent guests of the internet entrepreneur, were detained at the international airport for up to seven hours after listing the Dotcom Mansion as their place of address for their trip to the …
Kim Dotcom 2012 mansion raid deemed legal by Supreme Court
December 23, 2014 Channel
It seems ridiculous at this point, but Kim Dotcom is still awaiting his extradition trial, despite the fact that he was originally arrested almost three years ago, during a 20th January raid on his mansion. In the raid's aftermath, we learned that helicopters and heavily armed (though oddly not armoured) …
Kim Dotcom on his bail continuance
December 1, 2014 Channel
Last week saw MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom heading back to court to answer questions on whether he had breached his bail requirements, which prevent him from contacting the other defendants in his MegaUpload case. While all seemed well for him after the hearing, it was only today that he was …
Kim Dotcom's NZ lawyers jump ship, forget he exists
Kim Dotcom has been legally embattled since January of 2012, following his arrest after the raid on his home. This legal action takes place all over the world, with court cases and lawyer wrangling in the US, Hong Kong and New Zealand, as some try to extradite him, while others …
SOPA like TPP isn't shared, to avoid public debate
November 3, 2014 Channel
The Trans Pacific Partnership agreement has been the subject of much criticism for years at this point. Despite seeing SOPA, PIPA and ACTA fall to public outcry, politicians in the US and other countries have continued to push for legislation that would extend copyright and protect monopolies, ostensibly to improve …
NZ immigration teases Dotcom deportation over driving charge
October 31, 2014 Channel
The New Zealand government has been trying to get rid of Kim Dotcom for many years at this point. Since the Megaupload and Internet MANA founder was arrested during a raid on his home in January 2012, it's been trying to extradite him to the US for charges on money laundering …
Internet MANA party leader admits "mistake" over Dotcom
September 24, 2014 Channel
It's been a couple of days now since the Internet MANA party failed to gain a single seat in the New Zealand elections and party funder/founder Kim Dotcom claimed responsibility for it, apologising to supporters after the results came in. Now party leader Laila Harré has echoed this sentiment, suggesting …
Dotcom's Internet MANA alliance fails to win seat
Over the weekend votes were cast and counted in New Zealand's latest general election, following weeks and months of campaigning by all parties. Most notably in the tech press, Megaupload and Mega founder Kim Dotcom has appeared, alongside his Internet MANA party creation, with hopes to win one of its …
NZ PM denies mass surveillance, admits some data gathering
Following on from Kim Dotcom's "Moment of Truth," event held earlier this week, where Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Glen Greenwald, all accused New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key of being complicit in his intelligence agency (GCSB) spying on New Zealand citizens, the PM has made a statement to the …
Dotcom, Snowden, Assange, Greenwald all attack NZ PM
Yesterday, some of the biggest names in the public fight for internet freedoms and personal privacy made an appearance together in Auckland, New Zealand, to talk to Internet Party members and concerned citizens, about the upcoming New Zealand general election and they spent a lot of their time criticising the"adolescent" …
NZ PM in alleged Dotcom extradition plot
The character of New Zealand's prime minister, John Key, has once again been called into question, after internet entrepreneur, Kim Dotcom, announced that he had in his possession a copy of an email conversation between the CEO of Warner Bros and the MPAA's Mike Ellis, that discussed Mr Key allowing …
Dotcom to get cloned drives from Megaupload trial
It turns out that after all the legal wrangling and back and forthing in the courts, Kim Dotcom is going to have access to some of the evidence against him, as the Court of Appeals has ruled that although the raid on his house in January 2012 was legal, the …
Dotcom's Internet Mana party concludes tour, denies effigy burning
August 11, 2014 Channel
Megaupload and Mega founder, Kim Dotcom, has been touring New Zealand in recent weeks alongside representatives of his sponsored Internet Mana Party, to help spread the word about the company's stance on copyright reform, personal privacy, internet developments and a number of other political points. However, he's had to conclude …
Kim Dotcom pledges Internet Party will stop mass snooping
July 25, 2014 Channel
Surveillance, snooping, the mass collection of data and the oppressive oversight of governments around the world has been a big topic over the past year. Kim Dotcom is someone that knows about it all too well, considering he himself was spied upon illegally before being arrested with an invalid warrant …
Dotcom to make PM revelation five days before election
Kim Dotcom has grabbed headlines in New Zealand once again, after announcing that just five days before the general election later this year, he's rented out the Auckland Town Hall and will be inviting anyone and everyone to hear new revelations that explain how the Prime Minister knew of him …
Judge halts Megaupload civil suits
June 12, 2014 Channel
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has been legally embattled for almost two and a half years. Originally arrested during a raid on his mansion back in January 2012, he's been fighting his extradition from New Zealand ever since. In recent months however, he's won a few legal skirmishes, enough so that …
Kim Dotcom's Internet Party forms alliance with MANA
May 27, 2014 Channel
Kim Dotcom's Internet Party just took a big step on the road to becoming a legitimate political force in New Zealand, by forming an official alliance with the MANA party. While both will retain their independence, a new organisation is being formed from the alliance, creating the Internet MANA party. …
New Zealand shuts down supercomputer after breach
May 26, 2014 Security
A security breach at New Zealand's 34 terraflops supercomputer, FitzRoy, caused those in charge to pull the plug on it and disconnect it from the internet, keeping it away from the nefarious individuals behind the hack. The system, owned by New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), lives …
Dotcom's Internet Party closes on MANA deal, PM embarassed
As internet entrepeneur Kim Dotcom's Internet Party closes in on a deal with the local MANA party, headed by ex-Maori party leader, Hone Harawira, news has emerged that the Prime Minister John Key, who denies any involvement with his government's GCSB intelligence agency illegally spying on Kim Dotcom, actually had …
Dotcom officially launches the Internet party
Teased and talked about for several months, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's Internet Party political group has now been officially launched, putting its policies out there for the first time and asking for member registrations. On the newly launched website, Dotcom himself introduces the party (along with a parodied special guest) …
New Zealanders split on Kim Dotcom extradition
With Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's extradition trial finally looks like it's going to take place in a couple of months' time, there's been talk in New Zealand of whether or not justice minister Judith Collins should step in and block the extradition. However in a poll of New Zealand citizens, …
One in five would vote for Kim Dotcom's Internet Party
February 10, 2014 Channel
While Kim Dotcom may have been forced to scrap his Party Party earlier this year, he's still going ahead with his Internet Party, not a celebration, but a political organisation. In-fact, he's even more likely to push it forward with it after hearing the news that one in five New …
US snooping continues expansion with NZ FACTA compliance
February 6, 2014 Channel
Despite all the negative attention that the privacy destroying revelations surrounding the NSA's PRISM scheme has brought to the US and the huge fallout because of that in the US technology sector, the government is continuing to extend its tentacles around the world and is getting local governments to force …
Xbox One launch begins in New Zealand
November 21, 2013 Console
Sony may have beaten Microsoft to market with its next-gen system in one territory, but with 12AM rolling round in the most eastern parts of the world, Microsoft's response has begun to hit the shelves. New Zealand and Australia are first up and as I write this the first few …