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…
In 2017, Kiwis reported losing $10.1 million dollars to online scams and fraud to Netsafe. The largest single loss reported was $480,000 to an investment scam. Auckland residents reported the highest loss by region at $2.7 million, ahead of losses in Wellington of $1.14 million and losses in Canterbury of $969,000. Over the last 5…
In February 2014 NetSafe made a written submission on the Harmful Digital Communications Bill to the New Zealand Parliament’s Justice and Electoral Select Committee. The bill was drafted to implement the Government’s approach to addressing harmful digital communications. This approach was largely based on the findings of the Law Commission’s 2012 Ministerial Briefing paper, Harmful…
NetSafe was welcomed as the 50th member of INHOPE in June 2014. INHOPE is an active and collaborative network of hotlines in countries worldwide working together to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. INHOPE Hotlines offer the public a way of anonymously reporting Internet material including child sexual abuse material they suspect to be…
