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How Internet of Things devices affect your privacy – even when they’re not yours

25 June 2025

Internet of Things devices are collecting an increasing amount of information, creating a web of data harvesting that ensnares people all around them.

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People in Iran trying to flee Israeli bombs face internet blackout, ordered to delete WhatsApp
	19 Jun: Authorities in Iran have regularly restricted internet access for the country's roughly 90 million people since last week.... more

Computers tracking us, an ‘electronic collar’: Gilles Deleuze’s 1990 Postcript on the Societies of Control was eerily prescient
	19 Jun: Writing before the advent of the smartphone, a French philosopher foresaw a world where computers would shape our behaviour, controlling much of our lives.... more

The Trump family's next venture, a gold smartphone and mobile phone service
	17 Jun: Donald Trump and his family are getting into the telecommunications industry, but questions remain whether the marketed Made in the USA phone can actually be manufactured domestically.... more

How does Israel’s famous air defence work? It’s not just the ‘Iron Dome’
	17 Jun: Israel’s high-tech defences have so far succeeded against most of the hundreds of ballistic missiles fired by Iran.... more

The Otago Regional Council's admitting further privacy breaches, during an investigation into it sharing the email addresses of hundreds of people
	10 Jun: The Otago Regional Council's admitting further privacy breaches, during an investigation into it sharing the email addresses of hundreds of people... more

To golf's Canadian Open
	6 Jun: To golf's Canadian Open... more

A stadium sized balloon has successfully launched from Wanaka Airport - after several cancellations
	17 Apr: A stadium sized balloon has successfully launched from Wanaka Airport - after several cancellations... more

Internet and phone services in Otago and Southland have been disrupted - first by animals, then a human whoopsie
	16 Apr: Internet and phone services in Otago and Southland have been disrupted - first by animals, then a human whoopsie... more

Thousands of West Auckland homes have no internet because of a fault in Kumeu
	13 Apr: Thousands of West Auckland homes have no internet because of a fault in Kumeu... more

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