On 12 December 2000 the Statutes Amendment Bill was
introduced into Parliament. It will amend the Privacy Act
1993 to secure a finding from the European Commission that
New...
People should be given the right to have their names deleted
from direct marketing lists, Privacy Commissioner Bruce
Slane said today.
'We have a lot of complaints from people...
Tactics employed by private investigators have come under
scrutiny by the Privacy Commissioner, Bruce Slane.
After separate investigations into three complaints
concerning the ways in which they went about...
Media Statement
I have decided to open a Commissioner initiated
investigation into the particular case which has become
public in the last two days.
The investigation will be to establish...
If he has been correctly reported, Lord Wakeham appears to
be quite extraordinarily ignorant about the matters of which
he was speaking. The report filed by Richard Long...
Members of Parliament should hesitate before accepting novel
recommendations of the Select Committee which will enable
prison officers to intercept mobile telephone calls.
The recommendation of the Justice and...
I conducted an inquiry into the collection, retention, use
and release of newborn metabolic screening test samples,
often referred to as the Guthrie test. A heel prick
blood sample...
Letter to the Editor, Evening Post, By Bruce Slane, Privacy
Commissioner
Your report (December 16) on WINZ and benefit fraud states
that data-matching, 'is under fire from the Privacy
Commissioner...
Letter to the Editor, Dominion, by Bruce Slane, Privacy
Commissioner
AN ABRIGED VERSION OF THIS LETTER WAS PUBLISHED BY THE
DOMINION ON 15 DECEMBER 1999. THE LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS...
Letter to the Editor (Dominion) from Lord Wakeham (Chairman
of the Press Complaints Commission, UK), published November
7, 1998.
Sir
On October 31 you reported some remarks I had made...