Internet and digital biz lawyer. Partner, Lowndes Jordan, Auckland, NZ. IP, tech, privacy, cybersecurity, cap raising - with some trusts, general business and commercial property thrown in. Live in Glenorchy - Lord of the Rings territoryhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3mcsqovc3vc2dDouble ha - walking out of St Kevin’s and who should I bump into but @jonahmerchant.bsky.social Great to hear neck o the woods is still going and that other irons are in the fire, Jonah. Say hi to Tracey M from me19 Jan 2026 23:00 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcsqovc3vc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3mcsppj7sx22lHa - now that I live in GY, I don’t get to AKL that often and even less to K Road but here I am sitting in a cafe in St Kevin’s arcade eating a sausage roll and listening to Tainted Love. I’m back in my student salad days!!!19 Jan 2026 22:43 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcsppj7sx22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3ltt4qojnys2oFeeding my addiction at the 10th anniversary of startup weekend Taranaki13 Jul 2025 05:18 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltt4qojnys2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lpql73ojfs2iI wish kiwifoo was still a thing. It was a huge and thankless task for @gnat.bsky.social @publicaddress.bsky.social Jenine et al, but I think we need it for the same reasons you refer to re reclaiming online spaces eh @sachajudd.com22 May 2025 07:18 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpql73ojfs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lpo4xukew22tGrrrr - why does each online meeting app (zoom, teams, G meet etc) use a different video and microphone setting on my laptop, so I need to do the bloody “can you hear me” dance each time I switch to a different app21 May 2025 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpo4xukew22thttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3loc4rqdgds2h03 May 2025 19:58 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3loc4rqdgds2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lnwmfs2z322yGlenorchy #nofilter29 Apr 2025 06:05 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnwmfs2z322yhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3ln4mywqyas2iNYT Games “Connections” is so jingoistically American that even when I get the four groups out by a process of elimination, sometimes I still don’t understand how the last group is connected 🧐18 Apr 2025 22:07 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln4mywqyas2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lmgqs3vuh22rWhat is it that makes telcos, banks, power companies et al think it’s a good idea to first waste my time by stuffing something up, then force me to navigate labyrinthine automated call support lines to get to a real person …10 Apr 2025 05:16 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmgqs3vuh22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3ljobngzbfk2zI see that InternetNZ has gazumped all its new members who wished to vote on its constitutional changes, by giving advance notice of an SGM to be held on 31 March. INZ’s current constitution postpones membership rights (incl the right to vote) for 3 months after joining06 Mar 2025 00:51 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljobngzbfk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3ljjt7hxm5s2xQuick trip to the 09 and staying up end of CBD so dropped in for a bite at Lowbrow. Great to see St Kevin’s packed on a Tuesday #oldstompingground04 Mar 2025 06:22 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljjt7hxm5s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lg4j2776zk2v1/3 13 years ago today, Messrs Batato, Ortmann, van der Kolk and Dotcom were arrested for alleged criminal #copyright infringement following a massive police raid on Dotcom’s home in Coatesville. They were in NZ for KDC’s 38th birthday.19 Jan 2025 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg4j2776zk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lfv3sbyfbc2hThe stand they’ve put up for the SailGP, which starts in Auckland tomorrow, looks like it will give spectacular close up views of the racing https://sailgp.com/races/24-25/new-zealand-sail-grand-prix-auckland/overview16 Jan 2025 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfv3sbyfbc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lewyainnrc2iYou’d have thought I might have got it earlier #cyberlawyer???04 Jan 2025 20:50 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lewyainnrc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3ldx7qgbs4s2b#SongsForLawyers a Xmas treat - just in case you forgot to bookmark it from the other place 🤣 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ijVHH3goOa4p5wphq63MX?si=WS3ccWJ0RX-kqESm8aFzdA&pi=a-0DcYUENlRSSP23 Dec 2024 05:39 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldx7qgbs4s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lcvd6watn22uThe cultural tutor isn’t here, but someone recently started a thread on LI about colloquially named buildings that reminded me of him. My contribution was the “Crunchy Bar building” originally built as merchant bankers, Fay Richwhite’s headquarters in Auckland, NZ. Anyone else have any?09 Dec 2024 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcvd6watn22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lcteavwyas2qHilarious steward, Mike, on my AirNZ flight ZQN 🛫 AKL NZ616. I like flying but this makes it fun (and a relief, given the weather was making it look a little chancy we’d even get out today)08 Dec 2024 23:24 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcteavwyas2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lcsxkockek2qI have really bitten the bullet on no longer using X - now removed a link to my Twitter feed from my standard signature block #EndOfAnEra08 Dec 2024 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcsxkockek2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lcld5twitk2yThe reported “obligation” to continually interact and the guilt when not doing so, reminds me of the tamagotchi effect on kids. I can also recall reports at the time from parents saying that looking after a tamagotchi made their child a better person [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Dec 2024 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcld5twitk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lce4hyatmk2hNZ Supreme Court has just issued a major #trusts #law decision confining fiduciary duties in context of a family dispute to those owed by parents to non-adult children. 1/202 Dec 2024 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lce4hyatmk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lc2b4d6ook23Are any NZ news platforms here yet? Herald, stuff tvnz etc28 Nov 2024 23:51 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lc2b4d6ook23https://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lbtlssymx22iExcellent day at #IAPPANZ2024 #privacy conference. Lots of movement in the Australian regulatory space, both with legislation, and regulator enforcement (eg Bunnings and, hot of the press, Property Lovers OAIC actions https://www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-centre/grubisa-companies-interfered-with-australians-privacy-by-scraping-data)26 Nov 2024 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbtlssymx22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lbqxbdfzgs2cNot sure who else on here is attending, but for those that are, see you at the IAPP privacy #ANZsummit24 in Melbourne over the next two days 🤓25 Nov 2024 07:01 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbqxbdfzgs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lbg7xb7hlc2vMay have missed others posting on this but anyone with an iPhone should instal latest iOS software ASAP https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2024/11/20/ios-1811-update-now-warning-issued-to-all-iphone-users/21 Nov 2024 00:37 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbg7xb7hlc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/lawgeeknz.bsky.social/post/3lbfms2ates2hit’s meant to be summer here at home in Glenorchy, but snowed down to 1200m last night20 Nov 2024 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:wp3mkstehrt74tok6w4dkjpf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfms2ates2h