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New Zealand’s parliament on Tuesday near-unanimously ... or on someone with impaired decision-making capacity. Such offenses would be subject to up to three years imprisonment.

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The New Zealand Law Society said the clause regarding automated decision-making "is not limited in any way and the accompanying documentation for the bill contains no analysis of the proposal".