by Red Scribble | Dec 26, 2025 | Governance
The ContextIn April 2022, a worker at ME Jukes & Son in Gisborne was killed after becoming trapped in a waste shredder. In 2025, Judge Warren Cathcart found the company guilty of a charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. The specific fine is pending,...
by Red Scribble | Dec 26, 2025 | Governance
The ContextIn June 2025, the Privacy Commissioner cleared Foodstuffs North Island’s facial recognition trial, which scanned 226 million faces across 25 stores. The system generated 1,742 alerts. Six months later, a woman in Rotorua was misidentified and removed from a...
by Red Scribble | Dec 19, 2025 | Governance
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...
by Red Scribble | Dec 18, 2025 | Governance
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...
by Red Scribble | Dec 18, 2025 | Governance
The ContextIn December 2025, the Privacy Commissioner took the rare step of publicly naming two PAK’nSAVE stores—Clendon and Royal Oak—for serious breaches of the Privacy Act 2020. The trigger was third-party security guards sharing customer images, including...