Archive for February, 2026
Talley’s source of contention
Tuesday, February 10th, 2026An overlooked part of Talley’s Group’s defamation case against TVNZ is its attempt to get TVNZ to disclose its confidential sources. It applied to court to make TVNZ give them up. This was a real test of our journalist source protection regime. In the two leading cases up to now, the courts had (effectively) refused […]
A note about data breaches
Monday, February 9th, 2026It’s becoming a regular thing to see hackers get hold of reams of private data and threaten to leak it. (See recently: Manage My Health and Neighbourly leaks. And in recent years: Commerce Commission and Te Whata Ora.) Courts readily grant injunctions to prevent the disclosure of such purloined information, usually on the basis of […]