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Your DNA is only a click away: Home DNA tests and privacy
Te Piringa’s Dr Andelka Phillips’ work cited in New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s latest blog - at home DNA tests are increasing in popularity, but they pose significant privacy risks and the industry has largely been unregulated to date.

As NZ goes into lockdown, authorities have new powers to make sure people obey the rules (25 March 2020)

From midnight on Wednesday, New Zealand will go into lockdown for four weeks, with only essential services like supermarkets and pharmacies remaining open.
New Dean of Law at the University of Waikato (18 March 2020)

Professor Alpana Roy has joined the University of Waikato as Dean, Te Piringa Faculty of Law.
Emerging climate policies to affect the producers of oil, gas, and coal (16 March 2020)

A University of Waikato expert in energy law and mining says countries producing fossil fuels have no guarantee of a market for their products as the world addresses climate change.