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Viewing entries tagged with 'International'

49th APPA Forum (Part 1): Scan of the Asia-Pacific Jane Foster
30 August 2018 at 11:10

On 25-26 June 2018, Privacy Commissioner John Edwards and I attended the 49th Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) Forum in San Francisco, California, hosted by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

49th APPA Forum (Part 2): Toys, open data and the GDPR Jane Foster
30 August 2018 at 10:51

The second day at the 49th APPA Forum consisted of discussion sessions with various presenters from the state sector, academia, private legal practice and the global technology companies. 

49th APPA Forum (Part 3): The accountable AI workshop Jane Foster
30 August 2018 at 10:33

An international think-tank, the Centre of Information Policy Leadership (CIPL), hosted a workshop on Accountable Artificial Information at Google headquarters.

Making a smart move Sophie Richardson
23 August 2018 at 10:29

One of the key observations in a new report on making our transport infrastructure more efficient is to not repeat information handling mistakes made overseas.

UN Special Rapporteur’s consultation on Big Data-Open Data Joanna Hayward and Michael Harrison
15 August 2018 at 10:05

We recently participated in a two-day consultation on Big Data-Open Data at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney. The session was convened by Professor Joseph Cannataci, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Privacy.

Working with Industry 1: How Uber is driving privacy initiatives Richard Menzies
7 May 2018 at 09:00

This guest post was contributed by Richard Menzies, General Manager, Uber NZ, to mark Privacy Week. It is the first in our Working with Industry series of guest posts. The Working with Industry series do not necessarily reflect the views of our office and are published to inform and stimulate debate on topical privacy issues and developments.

Information sharing: Learning from overseas experience John Edwards
30 January 2018 at 12:51

Privacy is sometimes wrongly seen as antithetical to information sharing. It is not. Privacy and information sharing are different sides of the same coin. Our Privacy Act could just have easily and just as accurately been called the Information Sharing Act. Rather than arbitrarily limit what information can be shared, with whom, and for what purposes, the Privacy Act provides a framework for safe information sharing.