The Poisoned Acquisition

The ContextOn 10 December 2025, the High Court appointed PwC as liquidators to six Chance Voight entities holding approximately $50 million in client deposits. The FMA triggered this, launching a formal investigation. The strategic trigger was an acquisition: in...

The Network Liability

The ContextOn 19 December 2025, the US Department of Justice released thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. This followed a separate release of 20,000 pages from his estate by the House Oversight Committee in November. This is not a historical footnote....

The Disclosure Debacle

The ContextOn 15 December 2025, New Zealand Police notified the Privacy Commissioner of a critical data breach. A technical defect in their Incident Management Tool, active from 4-15 December, failed to redact sensitive information in case disclosure packages sent to...

The Regulator’s Fault Line

The ContextOn 13 November 2025, a WorkSafe subsidiary, Energy Safety New Zealand, enacted a change to the Electricity (Safety) Regulations. It deleted the clause banning switches in the main earth (PEN) conductor for homes and businesses. The regulator’s own technical...

The Political Contagion

The ContextIn January 2025, Meta terminated its core DEI programmes. The internal memo cited a “charged” legal landscape. The real trigger was a meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and Trump advisor Stephen Miller in late 2024, where Zuckerberg assured him of...