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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.
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Should a COVID-19 vaccine be compulsory - and what would this mean for anti-vaxxers? (7 August 2020)
With COVID-19 vaccine developers reporting promising results, it is probable we will one day face a major public health question: can the government compel New Zealanders to be vaccinated?
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Operation Burnham: the New Zealand military's self-inflicted wounds will not heal by themselves (3 August 2020)
The old maxim that truth is the first casualty of war has been borne out by the damning Report of the Government Inquiry into Operation Burnham.
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The dangerous new cold war brewing with China will test New Zealand even more than the old one (22 July 2020)
A new cold war with China is coming and it will be just as dangerous, expensive and pointless as the last one.
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Webinar: The Dispensable Lives of Military-Working Dogs on the Battlefield: The Quagmire of their Legal Status under International Humanitarian Law
Date Wednesday 16 September 2020 Time 1pm - 2pm Location Zoom (Once you have registered you will receive a Zoom URL link to join the online event with a passcode) They were the only four-foots who could be trusted to do a piece of work strictly ‘on their own’. Each one knew his job and did it, not because he…