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NZ women caught up in nude photo website
An Aucklander whose name and photo were posted on a site where people trade nude images says she is hugely concerned and doesn't know how to get the picture taken down.
Google take over your home...and your phone!
Technology news with Peter Griffin and Google launches its new Pixel phone and a digital home assistant called (you've guessed it!) Home. Now search is anywhere and everywhere. Plus Facebook is hoping… Audio
Ben Grosser: cyber-security and ominous gibberish
Kim Hill talks to Ben Grosser, Assistant Professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois, and a faculty affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He is… Audio
Online film explores Five Eyes network
A new online film explores how the 'Five Eyes' global spying network is eroding our personal privacy. Its Kiwi director Justin Pemberton joins Checkpoint. Video, Audio
Yahoo built spying software after US govt request
The technology company Yahoo has secretly built a software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails, at the request of United States spy agencies.
Yahoo caught scanning customer emails for the NSA and FBI
Yahoo has been secretly scanning emails at the request of US intelligence agencies. We speak to Reuters reporter Joseph Menn in San Francisco, who broke the story. Audio
Doryun Chong: M+, curation, and the Walters Prize
Kim Hill talks to Doryun Chong, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at M+ Hong Kong, and former Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA. He is the judge of the 2016 Walters Prize. Audio
Sarah Laing: Katherine Mansfield and comics
Kim Hill talks to graphic designer, illustrator, and writer Sarah Laing. She is co-editor (with Rae Joyce and Indira Neville) of Three Words: an Anthology of Aoteraoa/NZ Women's Comics (Beatnik… Audio, Gallery
Julia Powles: surveillance and secrecy
Kim Hill talks to Dr Julia Powles, from the Faculty of Law and Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, where she works on technology law and policy. She is a former contributing editor and… Audio
'Extraordinary' that customers just finding out about Yahoo hack - Privacy Commissioner
It's extraordinary that people are only finding out now about a huge breach of Yahoo data that happened in 2014, New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner says. Audio
Privacy Commissioner responds to Yahoo breach
One hundred and thirty thousand New Zealanders may have had personal information stolen as part of the largest ever email hack. Privacy Commissioner John Edwards Audio
Up to 130,000 Spark customers affected by Yahoo hack
Up to 130,000 of Spark's Xtra customers have been caught up in a massive data breach involving its former email provider, Yahoo.
Former navy man finds owner of army medals via FB
A former navy man has helped reunite an Afghanistan veteran with his stolen medals, with the help of Facebook. Audio
Literary copyright in the age of the internet
Michael Wolfe tells Lynn Freeman the last decade has changed everything for writers. Audio
Location, location: a digital horror story
Kashmir Hill of fusion.net uncovered a digital horror story that revolves around location, and how the specific GPS coordinates of Joyce Taylor's Kansas farmhouse got linked to more than half a… Audio
"They've got it right" - The Spinoff's response to NZOA changes
Kathryn Ryan speaks to Duncan Greive of The Spinoff. Audio
Nights' Culture - Video Games
This week's cultural ambassador is 'Birth. Movies. Death' & GamePlanet reviewer Andrew Todd on the world of Virtual Reality. Audio
New technology with Andy Linton
Andy Linton on changes to the oversight of the internet domain name system - and he'll be getting on his e-bike. Audio
Norway says no way to Facebook auto-censor
Mediawatch - When a prize-winning Vietnam war picture caused Facebook accounts to be blocked recently, a Norwegian newspaper called out owner Mark Zuckerberg for abusing his editorial powers. Audio