Discrimination

There is a real risk of discrimination against Māori and Pasifika with police's expanding use of biometric data, a Māori technology and data ethicist says.

A Māori mum misidentified as a trespassed 'thief' at a Rotorua supermarket trialling facial recognition technology says she felt 'racially discriminated' against and embarrassed.

OPINION Maybe the education system shouldn't have tried to kill te reo - we'd be a nation of orators and writers by now, writes Joel Maxwell.