This month, Netsafe is celebrating twenty-five years of protecting Kiwis from online harm. When we started in 1998, smartphones weren't a thing, the internet was still a toddler, and social media didn't exist.
Fast forward twenty-five years and new technology has emerged that keeps New Zealanders connected. It has also made people more vulnerable to be being exposed to harmful...
There isn’t a day that doesn’t feature a news headline appearing around someone getting scammed out of their hard-earned savings. Last year Netsafe recorded $35 million of kiwi’s money lost from scams.
So, when our friends at the Office of the Banking Ombudsman’ asked Netsafe to participate in their new documentary series about scams, I had to say Yes. The...
Republished with permission from a blog article that originally appears on the IT Professionals New Zealand website.
On July 25th 2022 Netsafe and NZTech launched a new initiative that commits a range of technology companies to addressing the risk of online harmful content in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Aotearoa New Zealand Code of Practice for Online Safety and Harms has been adopted by Meta (Facebook and Instagram),...
Are we being prejudiced with social media and big tech?
TikTok faces a real threat of being banned in many Western countries including the US and Australia. Suddenly big tech companies that are Chinese owned with a large customer base face some head winds.
It isn’t the first time this has happened. In 2020, the Chinese government was forced to sell...
It’s become quite the norm for people to share every update and photo of their lives on social media. I can’t remember the last time I scrolled through my news feed, without seeing a friend posting about their child's latest achievement.
It has become so common, the trend is now known in the online space as ‘Sharenting.’ While this can...
