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Māori Data Sovereignty and the Fragility of Borrowed AI
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 planet, . This included New Zealand who had access for several days prior. “Fable 5…
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Māori Privacy Survey Findings
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 Zealanders, 52 percent say they are concerned about their individual privacy. Among Māori, that figure…
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AI Agents and Legal Personhood in New Zealand
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 argue that Mead’s tikanga Māori framework that I have previously applied to static AI models…
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Personal Māori Data Sovereignty
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 is non-technically literate people using a Windows computer, who want to save money and increase…
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AI Bias with Māori in Job Interviews
The past few days we are hearing about AI and recruitment issues with you a young man who faced bias. I am increasingly concerned that the media is not giving Māori any consideration with their AI bias stories, relying on academics for opinions and for them to talk about us like we are not capable…
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Meta’s Digital Ghost Patent
Meta’s Digital Ghost Patent: A Te Ao Māori Analysis IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR FACEBOOK AND META USERS On 30 December 2025, Meta was granted a United States patent that would allow its platforms to use Artificial Intelligence to construct a digital simulation of you, trained on your posts, messages, voice recordings, browsing history, and purchases and…
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Iran War and Data Sovereignty in New Zealand
For millennia, combatants have sought to cripple adversaries by destroying the infrastructure that sustains them, poisoning wells, burning bridges, bombing railways and oil refineries. In the war now engulfing the Middle East, data centres have emerged as a new category of target. The conflict has produced what analysts believe are the first publicly confirmed physical…
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Māori Forensic Deceased Data
Tikanga Māori Perspectives on Forensic Data: Dr Angela Clark on Digital Governance for Tūpāpaku in Aotearoa New Zealand Emerging forensic technologies, high-resolution imaging, 3D reconstructions, and AI-assisted analysis are rapidly changing how data from tūpāpaku (the deceased) is created, used, shared, and stored in Aotearoa New Zealand. While these tools can improve identification outcomes and…
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Māori Health Data Sovereignty realised
For the first time, the rohe of Te Taura Ora o Waiāriki (Te Arawa IMPB) will have access to a dashboard built from data specific to their people. This is a powerful shift in how Māori health realities are identified, acted upon and governed. Traditionally, health-data relevant to Māori is subsumed into broader district-level datasets…
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NZ and Australia companies prioritise Data Sovereignty
The Datacom 2025 ANZ Cloud and Infrastructure Report reveals a marked escalation in concerns surrounding data sovereignty among organisations across Australia and New Zealand. These concerns are primarily driven by security, regulatory compliance, and the rapidly intensifying computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI). 61% of respondents in New Zealand and 60% of respondents in Australia…
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Meta Algorithms discriminate NZ businesses
Recently, RNZ identified more than 30 New Zealanders, including a number of small businesses who have had their Facebook or Instagram accounts suspended after being accused of violating Meta’s community standards. This raises concerns about how Meta Algorithms discriminate against NZ businesses. Most concerningly, the suspensions were linked to allegations of sharing child exploitation or…
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Māori Insights on Global Data Risks
Data Sovereignty is not just a Māori issue, but a global issue that New Zealand must address now. Another follow up report from my Māori Data Governance Report 2025, this article analyses corporate requirements for Data Sovereignty and the need to classify on-shore and off-shore data hosting and sovereign AI and Data centres. Corporate needs…
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Critical Analysis of Te Mana Raraunga Data Principles
As a follow on from the findings of the State of the Nation Māori Data Governance 2025 Report, this is one of a series of articles analysing established Māori Data Governance Frameworks with a Te Ao Māori and Data Governance lens. This article presents a critical analysis of the Te Mana Raraunga The Māori Data…
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Māori Data Governance Report
This report examines the current landscape of Māori data sovereignty and governance in New Zealand. The research, conducted over 12 months, underscores the critical importance of Māori data sovereignty in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent bias and uphold Māori rights. A key finding reveals a significant disparity between established Māori data governance frameworks and…
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Hapū and Marae Data Sovereignty Podcast
Māori communities such as hapū, marae, taurahere, urban Māori and Māori organisation have always enacted sovereignty over their taonga, and in the digital age it has been no different. This podcast discusses the technical and grass roots level of Māori sovereignty that Māori refer to as “Tino Rangatiratanga” and “Mana Motuhake”. Terms enshrined in our…
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Māori AI Sovereignty Principles
Sovereign AI is about keeping control over our future. Tino rangatiratanga mō tātou, ā, mō ngā uri ā muri ake nei The ability to create and control our destiny for generations to come. These principles are a localised version of the international Indigenous AI Sovereign principles. Pou 1. Data sovereignty and Data Governance: Our data,…
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Benefits to Māori of no Census
The recent announcement by the government that the Census will cease in 2028 has been met with various reactions. Māori statisticians and academics with memberships and affiliations to Te Mana Raraunga and Iwi Leaders Data Group in particular are warning of issues for Māori and Iwi. As a Māori technologist/governor with Data and AI, I…
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Cyber activism removes Toitū te Tiriti Lawyer form social media
Toitū te Tiriti Lawyer, Tania Waikato who has become prominent online with sharing legal advise. She posts tutorials about how to write submissions against the racist Regulatory Standards Bill here in New Zealand and has been banned from Facebook. Her content was civil, polite and factual. It only served to enlighten people of the impacts…
