Tech regulation shakeup vital: OECD

The OECD says businesses need to be given regulatory freedom to embrace new technologies. (Image: Getty)

Wed, 02 Feb 2022

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has advised the New Zealand government to embrace goal-based regulations to help drive businesses’ use of digital technology. “Some of New Zealand’s regulations lack flexibility to accommodate disruptive digital innovation, a framework to support data portability, and agility to prevent anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions in digital services,” a new report said.“The effective use of digital technologies and data would enable New Zealanders t...

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