{"id":72137,"date":"2025-06-05T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/05\/new-zealand-pm-mulls-privacy-laws-aide-secretly-recorded-sex-workers"},"modified":"2025-06-05T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:24:31","slug":"new-zealand-pm-mulls-privacy-laws-after-aide-secretly-recorded-sex-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72137","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand PM mulls privacy laws after aide \u2018secretly recorded sex workers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy press chief Michael Forbes quit after also allegedly photographing women at gym but has faced no charges<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister has suggested introducing new privacy laws after his deputy press secretary was allegedly caught making audio recordings of sex workers without consent.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Forbes, a senior aide, resigned after the local news outlet Stuff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/nz-news\/360712300\/pms-press-secretary-recorded-sex-workers-without-consent\">alleged he covertly recorded audio of sessions with sex workers<\/a> and secretly photographed women at the gym.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/05\/new-zealand-pm-mulls-privacy-laws-aide-secretly-recorded-sex-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy press chief Michael Forbes quit after also allegedly photographing women at gym but has faced no chargesNew Zealand\u2019s prime minister has suggested introducing new privacy laws after his deputy press secretary was allegedly caught making audio re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4505,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2765,56,933,478,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christopher-luxon","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-privacy","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72138,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72137\/revisions\/72138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}