Netsafe former CEO Martin Cocker shares his thoughts about the Harmful Digital Communications Act, the media and free speech. Coverage of a high profile complaint under the Harmful Digital Communications (HDC) Act against Newsroom has once again raised concerns that the HDC Act will curtail free speech. We don’t discuss the details of cases publicly –…
This article was written by Former Netsafe CEO Martin Cocker in the lead up to the 2018 Trans-Tasman Online Safety Conference – The Crossroads. One of the defining characteristics of online safety is change. New technologies throw up new challenges (or new variations on existing ones). Online safety people are constantly at a crossroads faced…
This article was written by former Netsafe CEO, Martin Cocker following Netsafe’s involvement in the NZ Tech Week event ‘Hate speech in the age of the Internet’. Our friends at InternetNZ have put together a workshop for NZ Tech week called Hate speech in the age of the Internet. We offered our support to help promote the event…
An open letter to Kiwis from Netsafe’s former CEO. Article originally published by the New Zealand Herald. “Create an account – It’s free and always will be”. This is the message you’ll see when signing up for Facebook. You might not be paying your sign-up fee in NZ dollars, but you sure are paying. This…
Netsafe’s Chief Online Safety Officer, Sean Lyons, breaks down the new 2017 Norton Cyber Security Insights Report. Today the 2017 Norton Cyber Security Insights Report was released. It shows that one million NZ adults were affected by cybercrime last year – that’s one third of the NZ adult online population. Globally, the report found that…
A whole school approach that involves everyone in your school community is most likely to foster online safety behaviours and help young people become digital citizens. The following resources may be useful to help schools begin to work in partnership with whānau and communities. Use them to: Talk about what is important and appropriate in…
