--- title: Blog – Te Kete o Karaitiana Taiuru description: Regular blog posts on topics relating to Māori digital topics by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru. Subscribe to RSS feed http://www.taiuru.co.nz/rss url: https://www.taiuru.co.nz/blog-2/ markdown_url: https://www.taiuru.co.nz/blog-2.md type: page slug: blog-2 author: Karaitiana Taiuru published: 2010-08-22T22:03:13Z modified: 2026-10-08T07:42:38Z language: en-NZ word_count: 1313 tokens: 2220 --- # Blog – Te Kete o Karaitiana Taiuru Dr Karaitiana Taiuru regularly composes blog posts on topics relating to Māori and Artificial Intelligence, Data Sovereignty, Safety, Cultural Appropriation and other related topics. Please subscribe to the RSS feed http://www.taiuru.co.nz/rss to keep up to date. All posts Indigenous Legal Knowledge and the Future of Legal Scholarship October 14, 2026 This is a copy of a post I wrote for Verfassungsblog Symposium in the series Thinking Machines, Thinking Lawyers. 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N Part 1: The Internet infrastructure and… Read more → Macrons in Domain Names: History and a Practical Guide to IDNs in .nz (2006–2026) October 10, 2026 Māori Macrons in Domain Names: The History and a Practical Guide to IDNs in .nz (2006–2026) By Dr Karaitiana Taiuru. Consolidated on 10 October 2026 from twelve posts first published between 28 April 2006 and 31 December 2023. Original publication… Read more → NZ media coverage of AI and Māori October 10, 2026 Māori are named in only about a third of New Zealand news stories about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Māori are talked about, but rarely heard. When you count who is quoted, Māori technology, rights and data sovereignty voices make up just… Read more → Principles for Digital Identity September 28, 2026 Introduction Digital identity in New Zealand (DIiNZ) must recognise that Māori identity is not only an attribute of an individual account, but also relational, collective, and grounded in whakapapa, whānau, hapū, iwi, whenua and other traditional collective identity mechanisms. Most… Read more → Social Licence and Te Tiriti o Waitangi September 26, 2026 What is a social licence? A social licence to operate (SLO) is the ongoing acceptance or approval that an organisation receives from communities and other groups affected by its activities. It is different from formal legal permission. A social licence… Read more → NZ racist AI generated ad September 23, 2026 Voyager Broadband‘s (Actrix Networks, 1st Domains / Affordable Domains / Register Direct) latest advertisement (via RNZ) shows two Māori/Pacific men, one of whom is attacking a Pākehā man by having him in a chocker hold on the floor, after their… Read more → Māori led framework for data centre development August 31, 2026 This article explores a proposed Māori led framework for datacentre development. Using a Māori owned and developed framework using environmental protections that are interwoven in tikanga Māori that respect and utilise the New Zealand environment. It argues that by doing… Read more → Māori Data Sovereignty preferences in GenAI August 20, 2026 This post analyses public preferences of the use of GenAI in the policy decision-making process across New Zealand and compares non-New Zealand Māori to other New Zealand’s preferences. The methodology is at the end of the article. Public preferences of… Read more → Tikanga Māori with Smart glasses August 9, 2026 There is an urgent need for marae to implement new kawa and tikanga to protect the people form anonymously being AI’s training data. Camera glasses (pervert glasses) now sold at Kmart for ninety-nine dollars, and other more expensive glasses with… Read more → Record of stolen Māori Knowledge by AI August 1, 2026 My ongoing investigation of scraped and stolen Māori knowledge by AI has identified more than 80 Māori authors, 8 non Māori kaupapa Māori authors (194 plus titles) and song artists; 100’s of videos from Te Karere TVNZ and Marae TV… Read more → Māori Data Sovereignty Operationalised with Google Maps July 5, 2026 This week Google Maps began rolling out a New Zealand voice that pronounces te reo Māori place names correctly. Place name Whangārei with the soft “f” sound from an New Zealand dialect, Taupō with the long vowel, Karangahape Road spoken… Read more → Deep fake harms real scenario and new legislation June 21, 2026 Too often in New Zealand, AI safety folk (who usually have a high level of privilege or are detached from vulnerable communities), will reference international AI stories highlighting harms while being oblivious to local harm stories. This is important from… Read more → Tikanga AI images of a person June 17, 2026 A New Zealand model Elijah Timmins-Scanlon alleges streetwear brand Huffer is generating models with AI, using the likeness of models from previous Huffer campaigns, without disclosure. Shockingly, On 6 June, Huffer wrote to him demanding he “immediately remove, or amend”… Read more → Māori Data Sovereignty and the Fragility of Borrowed AI June 13, 2026 Anthropic the company behind the Claude AI received with no warning or explanation, a directive directing them to immediately suspend access to their Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals in America and all non-Americans on the… Read more → Human Oversight in Automated Decision Making June 7, 2026 The New Zealand media continue to report on AI harms from a western, academic, middle-class perspective while continuing to make invisible communities silent and ignored. This is a te ao Māori perspective of the recent MSD automated Decision Making law… Read more → Ministry’s AI Guidance- wrong Māori advice May 27, 2026 The Ministry for Regulation’s Responsible AI in Action guidance (May 2026) represents a credible foundation for regulators engaging with Artificial Intelligence. However, the guidance contains a significant and consequential gap: its treatment of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Māori data… Read more → NZ FTA with India – dangers for Māori May 24, 2026 In 1907, the New Zealand Government passed an Act with a single purpose: to suppress tohunga and the traditional Māori knowledge and beliefs they held. It was not repealed until 1962. This was in addition to the Natives Schools Act,… Read more → Replacing public servants with AI – costs to Māori May 21, 2026 The current coalition government has announced the elimination of approximately 8,700 public sector positions or 14% of the public workforce alongside NZ$2.4 billion in spending reductions over three years, with AI deployed as the replacement mechanism. The PSA has been… Read more → Māori Privacy Survey Findings May 15, 2026 The Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s 2026 survey on privacy concerns and the use of personal information tells a story that New Zealand policymakers, technologists, and public institutions would do well to read carefully. More than half of all New… Read more → AI Agents and Legal Personhood in New Zealand May 3, 2026 In this article I extend my earlier analysis of Māori cultural perspectives on AI sentience and legal personhood to the specific and urgent case of agentic AI systems, those capable of autonomous, persistent, goal directed action across digital environments. I… Read more → Google DeepMind hires ‘philosopher’ April 15, 2026 As AI systems grow more capable, companies appear increasingly willing to look beyond traditional engineering disciplines for guidance on questions that touch on consciousness, identity and what it means to interact meaningfully with a machine. On 13 April 2026, Google… Read more → Personal Māori Data Sovereignty April 14, 2026 I am often asked by individuals how they can better implement Data and Digital Sovereignty in their home and whānau lives. Here are some immediate steps you can take that will protect your privacy and save you money. Primary audience… Read more → 1 2 3 … 15 Next Page