The Panel with Lizzie Marvelly and Mark Knoff-Thomas (Part 1)
A meeting overnight in Paris oversaw all the major tech companies sign-up to a first of its kind agreement, the Christchurch Call. The summit was initiated by the New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern and the French President Emmanuel Macron. Seventeen governments have signed up to it, as well as the tech big guns, Amazon, Facebook, Daily Motion, Google, Microsoft, QWant, Twitter, and You tube. Peter Thompson of Victoria University Wellington talks about the part the big bucks play in media decison-making. The Privacy Commissioner John Edwards has found the Ministry of Social Development has been systematically misusing its powers while pursuing people it suspects of benefit fraud. He says the Ministry has been bypassing beneficiaries and going to third parties for information. They've been obtaining text messages, domestic violence and other police records, banking information and other billing records. Privacy lawyer Liane Dalziel says there are grounds for the affected beneficiaries to have a legal case against the MSD. TVNZ is axing the Jeremy Kyle Show. It comes after a 63 year-old grandfather was found dead from apparent suicide, shortly after his appearance on the UK show, where he failed a lie detector test over alleged infidelity. Owen Jones who's the author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, said the show "consisted of putting vulnerable people from disadvantaged backgrounds in stocks to have eggs thrown at them". But is it the show's fault that this man is now dead?
