Phil Pennington

The government has hired an online surveillance firm set up by ex Israeli spies, that's been kicked off Facebook for spying on people.

Immigration officials have been using the firm Cobwebs… Audio

Towns trying to save their medical services can take a boost, and a warning, from Dannevirke.

Locals have fought hard to keep radiology services free of charge in the town, saving patients long… Audio

New Zealand is under pressure to yield to new European demands over how companies can harvest people's data.

But a lawyer is warning that might well end up heaping costs onto businesses.

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The earthquake risk for large parts of the country has increased by an average of 50 percent,

In the Wairarapa, Auckland and Northland it's tripled according to new modelling from GNS. 

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The mobile phone company Spark is keeping customers' valuable geographic location data for seven years, five years longer than the US average.

2degrees did not say how long it keeps it - but that it… Audio

A safety alert has gone out about wheels flying off school mobile dental clinics.

Twice a wheel has sheared off the heavy trailers and gone flying across the road.

Phil Pennington has more on this.
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Just one month after the Privacy Commissioner warned police to do better when it comes to number-plate cameras and privacy, a detective pretended a car was stolen so they could track it.

OIA… Audio

Health authorities have been told poor reporting of radiology scans throughout the lower half of the North Island is endangering people's lives.

A new internal report to Health NZ lists four frequent… Audio

The police have positioned themselves at the centre of a spreading web of surveillance cameras run by two private companies.

They can tap into footage from hundreds if not thousands of cameras that… Audio

Doctors desperate to improve public hospitals, are in despair over the state of radiology. Some believe things have become so bad, the only fix may be to privatise further. Phil Pennington reports. Audio

A tearful widow of a roadworker killed by a runaway truck has told a Wellington court you can't have a broken heart and harbour anger.

Fulton Hogan appeared in the district court yesterday for… Audio

Despite a damning investigation, the police have not been directed to stop taking photos of adults in public ad hoc.

An 18-month long official inquiry, triggered by RNZ reporting, has found police… Audio

A candid-camera style TV show from tech giant Amazon using doorbell footage is raising hackles in the US and eyebrows in New Zealand.

It is the latest twist on the Internet of Things - doorbells that… Audio

Major foreign tech companies with billions to spend on data centres have been strongly wooing the Government.

Seven of them, including global giants Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, sought… Audio

New Zealanders are paying over the odds for radiology scans compared to Australia, the UK and some other countries. An ACC review released for the first time to RNZ shows it is paying 40 percent more… Audio

A new report says measures in place to stop big tech companies spying on our schoolchildren appear far too weak.

Overseas, the multi-billion-dollar spread of online learning has triggered lawsuits… Audio

It's an extraordinary fight among highly paid medical specialists, with each side accusing the other of putting money ahead of patient welfare.

As investment pours into private radiology, a grouping… Audio

Doctors are heading to court to stop surgeons owning private radiology companies that do medical scans.

They argue there's a 'dangerous' conflict of interest that could see patients referred for… Audio