Written by Phil Pennington
New Zealand is under pressure to yield to new European Union demands over how companies harvest people's data.
A Wellington cloud services provider says Google's claim it will offer New Zealanders complete control over their own data is not true.
Māori data specialists are accusing the government of ignoring them while going ahead and expanding the reach of facial recognition technology.
Police are pressing pause for now on using facial recognition technology to identify people off live camera feeds, but will still use it on stored footage.
