The Privacy Commissioner's Office has a wide range of functions. All of the Privacy Commissioner's functions are listed in section 13 of the Privacy Act 1993.
The purpose of the Statement of Intent is to set out the medium term intentions and undertakings of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for the period 2012/13 and our direction to 2015.
Disclosure Statement for the Privacy Commissioner's expenses
View the Statement covering the period 1 July to 31 December 2012.
If you have a privacy enquiry, call our freephone: 0800 803 909 or enquiries@privacy.org.nz.
If you think you want to make a complaint about a breach of your privacy, see Your privacy.
To read the 12 privacy principles or to find a particular code of practice, see Privacy Act and codes.
To find out more about how the Privacy Act affects your business or organisation, see How to comply.
To find out more about how technology affects individual privacy, see Keeping safe online.
The Office also actively participates in international privacy networks. To find out more about privacy and technology in the international field, see International Working Group on Data Protection and Technology (IWGDPT)
To find out more about privacy in an international context see, privacy network links.
To find media releases, speeches or other publications see, News and publications.
To find out more about education seminars or training programmes, see Education and training.
If you want to find out more about data matching between government departments and how it operates, see our data matching section.
