http://privacy.org.nz/news-and-publications/ http://privacy.org.nz/nz-data-protection-law-gets-tick-from-eu-committee/ MEDIA RELEASE13 April 2011 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:15:08 +1200 http://privacy.org.nz/nz-data-protection-law-gets-tick-from-eu-committee/ http://privacy.org.nz/case-notes-released-december-201/ View the latest case notes released by the Privacy Commissioner. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:04:04 +1200 http://privacy.org.nz/case-notes-released-december-201/ http://privacy.org.nz/case-note-218236-2011-nz-priv-cmr-4-man-objects-to-pre-employment-screening/ The man was unsuccessful in his application, and made a request under principle 6 of the Privacy Act for the personal information held by the government agency in relation to his application. Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:56:40 +1200 http://privacy.org.nz/case-note-218236-2011-nz-priv-cmr-4-man-objects-to-pre-employment-screening/ http://privacy.org.nz/case-note-219105-2011-nz-priv-cmr-1-woman-complains-about-debt-collection-company-contacting-her-workplace/ She advised that the debt collection company had called her workplace hoping to talk to her. When her manager informed the debt collector that she was unable to take the call, the caller informed the manager of its name and number and gave her the woman's reference number and asked the manager to pass on the message. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:42:15 +1200 http://privacy.org.nz/case-note-219105-2011-nz-priv-cmr-1-woman-complains-about-debt-collection-company-contacting-her-workplace/ http://privacy.org.nz/case-note-211472-2010-nzprivcmr-2-woman-s-health-information-released-by-district-health-board-to-ministry-of-health/ A woman complained that a District Health Board had provided her anonymised health information to the Ministry of Health as part of statistical information concerning serious and sentinel events within the DHB. The information was published by the Ministry of Health and resulted in the woman's anonymised health information being published in a local newspaper. The woman considered that the information released by the DHB enabled her to be identified. Rule 11 Rule 11 of the Health Information Privacy Code places limits on the disclosure of information. A health agency may disclose health information where it believes on reasonable grounds that one of the exceptions set out in rule 11(1) applies. Disclosure is also allowed under rule 11(2) in a number of other circumstances, but only where it is not desirable or practicable to obtain authorisation from the individual.The DHB advised us that as part of the annual reporting requirements... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:23:09 +1300 http://privacy.org.nz/case-note-211472-2010-nzprivcmr-2-woman-s-health-information-released-by-district-health-board-to-ministry-of-health/ http://privacy.org.nz/data-matching-encryption/ 9 September 2008 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:15:18 +1300 http://privacy.org.nz/data-matching-encryption/ http://privacy.org.nz/case-note-209742-2010-nz-priv-cmr-21-councils-not-permitted-to-charge-lawyers-for-providing-rates-information/ A number of lawyers complained to us about local councils charging a fee upon a request for rates information on behalf of clients.A lawyer acting for a property vendor requires rating information from councils to reconcile outstanding rates at the date of settlement for the sale of a property. The councils charged the lawyers a fee for providing this information. The lawyers complained that as they were requesting personal information about their clients, councils should not charge for providing this information.Principle 6We investigated this issue under principle 6 of the Privacy Act which gives individuals the right to access personal information that is held by an agency.Any request by a lawyer on behalf of a client is deemed to be a request by the client. Principle 6 is subject to a number of procedural provisions including section 35 of the Act. Section 35(1)(e) states, in part, that: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:34:17 +1300 http://privacy.org.nz/case-note-209742-2010-nz-priv-cmr-21-councils-not-permitted-to-charge-lawyers-for-providing-rates-information/ http://privacy.org.nz/young-children-can-be-active-in-their-own-defence-online/ Media release from Hector's World Ltd.The media is invited to attend the launch Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:56:34 +1200 http://privacy.org.nz/young-children-can-be-active-in-their-own-defence-online/ http://privacy.org.nz/google-s-collection-of-wifi-information-during-street-view-filming/    Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:06:53 +1300 http://privacy.org.nz/google-s-collection-of-wifi-information-during-street-view-filming/ http://privacy.org.nz/submission-by-the-office-of-the-privacy-commissioner-on-the-law-commission-s-review-of-the-official-information-acts/ View the submission on the Law Commission's Review of the Official Information Acts dated 7 February 2011.This submission covers a range of subjects including scope of the Acts, decision making, protecting privacy, complaints and remedies, and others. Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:16:25 +1300 http://privacy.org.nz/submission-by-the-office-of-the-privacy-commissioner-on-the-law-commission-s-review-of-the-official-information-acts/