A recent privacy case shows it is in nobody’s interests to waste the Human Rights Review Tribunal’s time.

The following is a summary of a Human Rights Review Tribunal decision which has since been overturned by the High Court. You can read the High Court decision here [1 October 2018]. The Court of Appeal decision is here [10 November 2020].

This guest post was contributed by Nicola Hermansson, APAC Data Protection & Privacy Leader at EY. It is the second 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.

R v Alsford is an important privacy decision. The Supreme Court has clarified the law in relation to voluntary requests for personal information by law enforcement agencies, and affirms the obligations and responsibilities of both the law enforcement requester and the responding agency.

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.

CERT NZ recently released their quarterly report for October to December 2017.

A recent data breach incident provided an example of how your responsibility to protect personal information does not end when you put the rubbish out for collection.

The following is the Privacy Commissioner’s response to a post by Facebook’s Global Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Stephen Deadman on the Commissioner’s finding that Facebook has failed to comply with its obligations under the New Zealand Privacy Act. For those who, like the Commissioner, have deleted or otherwise do not have access to Facebook, Mr Deadman’s post is pasted below.