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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.

The coronavirus crisis shows why New Zealand urgently needs a commissioner for older people (1 June 2020)

New Zealand is often described as a great place to grow up. We must also ask ourselves whether it is a great place to grow old.
Are New Zealand's new COVID-19 laws and powers really a step towards a police state? (20 May 2020)

Reaction to the New Zealand government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown has ranged from high praise to criticism that its actions were illegal and its management chaotic.
Five ways New Zealanders’ lives and liberties will be heavily controlled, even after lockdown eases (17 April 2020)

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced details of the next stage of lockdown, but New Zealanders won’t know until Monday when the country moves out of strict level 4 conditions.