Phil Pennington

The Transport Agency expects new speed cameras to triple the number of drivers caught, from one million to three million offences a year.

It could have ramped things up still further but has pulled… Audio

Newer, smarter speed cameras could be on their way which can catch you by recording your average speed between two points.

Transport Agency documents show the new speed cameras can also detect if you… Audio

A Wellington cloud services company says Google's claim it will offer New Zealanders complete control over their own data is not true.

It questions why the Government has been so quick to weigh in… Audio

A data specialist is questioning where his sensitive personal data has ended up after he applied for a government job.

The company that ran a criminal history check on him says it is connected to… Audio

Chinese surveillance cameras remain in wide use in New Zealand despite renewed controversy about them overseas.

A new move has begun by 60 lawmakers in the UK to ban sales of world-leading Hikvision… Audio

Cancer specialists are warning the country is at a point of no return when it comes to investing in more workers and better treatment.

New forecasting tools revealed at a high-powered medical… Audio

A forum has heard about the stark risks of governments over-reaching to create national identity databases that will control who gets public services.

Phil Pennington reports. Audio

More helipads have been approved for Aotea Great Barrier and Waiheke islands despite community opposition.

Locals are frustrated at the rate consents are being granted and aim to increase their… Audio

Māori data specialists accuse the government of ignoring them while going ahead and  expanding the reach of facial recognition technology. 

IT in use for three years at Internal Affairs is being… Audio

Specialists on statistics warn a law change poses the threat of official data being corrupted by political meddling and unregulated sharing.

They are alarmed the new law will let the Government… Audio

A raft of legal opinions has cleared the way for greater use of facial recognition technology to prove who you are online, as the government moves towards setting up a common identity verification… Audio

Health officials have given short shrift to an unprecedented proposal to boost the numbers of specialised nurses who provide critical support to GPs.

RNZ can reveal all the schools of nursing have… Audio

The government is persisting with a way of buying hugely expensive medical devices that has been proven ineffective.

Pharmac has failed to deliver many savings and has yet to set up a way to… Audio

"Stark" findings about the poor state of the Wellington region's hospitals have triggered a rush to get a $2 billion plan underway.

Newly released DHB documents show earthquake risks and escalating… Audio

A Christchurch car dealer says the emissions data that determines if customers get rebates or fees is changing even as he tries to sell a vehicle.

Documents released under the OIA show transport… Audio

Police caught 5000 drivers breaking their restricted licences by carrying passengers when they shouldn't last year - and prosecuted just one of them.

They issued written warnings to just 10 of them.

Four years after Waka Kotahi was slammed for not doing its job of keeping roads safe, one of its core unit's has been labelled so ineffective it is being pulled apart.

The unit undergoing a… Audio

Radiologists are describing a crisis across the country of short staffing, old scanning machines and millions spent on outsourcing.

The extra taxpayer dollars being spent sending outpatients for… Audio