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Podcast: The Front Page
Episode: Deepfake porn and covert recordings - is NZ law keeping up with technology?
Description: Is New Zealand’s legal system moving fast enough to adapt to new technologies? It’s a question being asked by some of our top academics and MPs. The conversation around covert recordings has made headlines this week – as well as questions around whether it’s illegal. And Act MP Laura McClure made global headlines after holding up a photo of herself naked in Parliament. It was an AI-generated ‘deepfake’, which McClure said took her only moments to create. So do our existing laws protect victims from being abused through rapidly developing te...