Chinese data collection on influential New Zealanders
Concerns over Chinese data collection on influential NZ’ers Data leaked by a Chinese company on prominent New Zealanders could be linked to attempts to influence New Zealand politics and business, says Canterbury University professor Anne-Marie Brady. Canterbury University professor Anne-Marie Brady. Photo: RNZ / Jane Patterson Radio NZ, 17 September, 2020 The names of 793 New Zealanders have been found in data leaked from Zhenhua Data to an American academic. The company is believed to be owned by China Zhenhua Electronics Group, which…
New Zealand is officially in recession
These figures will be massaged; they always are. They are talking about recovery but how is that possible when people can’t come ino or leave the country and our #1 earner, tourism, is completely shut down. Yesterday, they were saying 16 % https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/national-fears-brain-drain-as-new-zealand-economy-shrinks-more-than-australia-from-first-lockdown.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true&s=09 ‘In the eye of the storm’: Quarterly GDP falls a record 12.2 percent, New Zealand officially in recession Newshub, 17 Setermber, 2020 New Zealand Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell by a record 12.2 percent in the June…