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Lawyers in Government Conference on The Future Is Now Jasmine Harding
4 September 2018 at 16:14

I recently attended a one-day Lawyers in Government Conference hosted by the Government Legal Network in Wellington. It was an action-packed day full of questions, debate and learnings. The panel discussion which most interlinked with our field was the session titled The Future is Now.

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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).

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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When can you withhold sensitive employment information? Ophelia Waite
22 August 2018 at 16:52

When a person makes a request for personal information, the agency responding to the request is entitled to withhold the information, if one of the exceptions to principle 6 of the Privacy Act applies.

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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.

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Make requested information understandable, says Tribunal Charles Mabbett
7 August 2018 at 16:26

Under the Privacy Act, individuals have a right to get access to their personal information. When an agency receives such a request, a recent decision by the Human Rights Review Tribunal shows the agency, where possible, must provide the information in a way that is meaningful and understandable to the requester.

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