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Employer uses monitoring software to collect personal information

  • Buddle Findlay
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  • New Zealand
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  • July 9 2012

In June, the Privacy Commissioner issued a case note about an employer who used key stroke log-in software as part of an investigation into an employee's conduct

Employee privacy in the cloud age

  • Bell Gully
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  • New Zealand
  • -
  • July 5 2012

Last month the Privacy Commissioner reprimanded an employer for using key stroke monitoring software to obtain an employee's password and access their personal email account: case note 229558 2012 NZ PrivComr 4

Open source in the cloud

  • Simpson Grierson
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  • New Zealand
  • -
  • June 19 2012

In our June 2011 x-tech article, 'Making Open Source an Asset, and Not a Liability, In Your Commercialisation Strategy', we discussed some of the basic types of open source licences, and steps to take to ensure open source materials do not jeopardise the commercial exploitation of proprietary products

No pen? No paper? No problem(?)!

  • Simpson Grierson
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  • New Zealand
  • -
  • June 19 2012

Electronic signature (e-signature) providers DocuSign and RightSignature both announced in April that they had paired up with Google to bring their services to Google users the world over

Facebook - fair game for prospective employers?

  • Bell Gully
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  • New Zealand
  • -
  • April 27 2012

Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn and Bebo have seen massive growth in recent times, with an increasing number of people interacting online

Facebook and the $100 billion data question

  • Buddle Findlay
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  • New Zealand
  • -
  • March 11 2012

Many analysts were staggered by the almost US$100 billion valuation given to Facebook in its recent pre-IPO filing - while Facebook has shown greater staying power than the likes of MySpace or Friendster, most social networking sites have had to operate under the constant threat of being just one college student’s idea away from obscurity

Megaupload shutdown signals risks in the cloud

  • Buddle Findlay
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  • New Zealand, USA
  • -
  • February 20 2012

The file storage and viewing websites run by Megaupload were shut down by the US Justice Department in January 2012 alleging copyright infringement

Government launches its government cloud programme

  • Buddle Findlay
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • February 20 2012

Recently the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) posted a Registration of Interest (ROI) notice on GETS (the government's electronic tendering site) inviting suppliers to contribute to the development of an indicative business case for the government's adoption of cloud computing services

SOPA and PIPA - implications for New Zealand websites

  • Buddle Findlay
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  • New Zealand, USA
  • -
  • February 20 2012

For many, encountering Wikipedia's blacked-out landing page in mid-January was the first that they had heard of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Prevent Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act), two US legislative measures aimed at preventing foreign websites from enabling or facilitating infringement of US copyright

Cloud computing and privacy

  • Chapman Tripp
  • -
  • New Zealand
  • -
  • August 3 2011

Cloud computing is a fast-emerging, efficient and low cost alternative to more traditional data storage solutions

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