Office of the Privacy Commissioner

Making privacy tick Sophie Richardson
5 July 2017 at 15:15

How far can you trust a product or service with your personal information? Our office wants to create a way for consumers to know if they are using a service or product that will protect their privacy and personal information.

technology, security, data

Ask us about AskUs Sam Grover
21 June 2017 at 13:13

Just under a year ago, we launched AskUs, our interactive FAQ with answers to hundreds of privacy questions. In that time, AskUs has helped to answer more than 16,000 privacy questions.

enquiries

Tribunal finds confusion over request led to delay Annabel Fordham
14 June 2017 at 11:58

Mr Brooks was an active Taekwondo competitor and a long-time member of the Taekwondo Union of New Zealand (TUNZ). He represented New Zealand in the 2005 World Championships and the 2006 Commonwealth Championships.

Human Rights Review Tribunal, IPP6 - access

Breach Case 4: Testing with real data Neil Sanson
9 June 2017 at 13:03

Sometimes it seems a good idea to use real production data in a test environment. But doing so means security becomes even more important if you want to stop things going wrong.

security, data, breach

Does your office blog? Charles Mabbett
31 May 2017 at 14:53

A few months ago, our office asked our international privacy and data protection watchdog colleagues to let us know if their office was using blogging as a communications tool. The results received have been mixed and modest.

Global Privacy Assembly (GPA), International, social media

Should agencies leave no stone unturned? Charles Mabbett
10 May 2017 at 09:31

Organisations sometimes get it wrong when they respond to a person’s request for their personal information. Information is sometimes lost, displaced or accidentally deleted. A recent privacy case dealt with by the Human Rights Review Tribunal considers when an organisation can call it quits when it comes to searching for personal information in responding to an access request.

IPP6 - access, Human Rights Review Tribunal, law enforcement

BSA says media use of Facebook photos breached victims’ privacy Joanna Hayward
1 May 2017 at 17:09

The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has ruled that TVNZ breached privacy standards in reporting on a fatal bus crash in 2016. The bus was carrying students and teachers from a Tongan school band who were visiting New Zealand to fundraise for their school.

Facebook, media

Commissioner's US diary - part four John Edwards
27 April 2017 at 10:28

The International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications is a bit of a mouthful, so it is shortened to “The Berlin Group,” referring to the Berlin Data Protection Office, which initiated the working group in 1983, and has provided its secretariat ever since.

International

Making privacy tick Sophie Richardson 5 July 2017 at 15:15

Ask us about AskUs Sam Grover 21 June 2017 at 13:13

Tribunal finds confusion over request led to delay Annabel Fordham 14 June 2017 at 11:58

Breach Case 4: Testing with real data Neil Sanson 9 June 2017 at 13:03

Does your office blog? Charles Mabbett 31 May 2017 at 14:53

Should agencies leave no stone unturned? Charles Mabbett 10 May 2017 at 09:31

BSA says media use of Facebook photos breached victims’ privacy Joanna Hayward 1 May 2017 at 17:09

Commissioner's US diary - part four John Edwards 27 April 2017 at 10:28

Making privacy tick Sophie Richardson
5 July 2017 at 15:15

Ask us about AskUs Sam Grover
21 June 2017 at 13:13

Tribunal finds confusion over request led to delay Annabel Fordham
14 June 2017 at 11:58

Breach Case 4: Testing with real data Neil Sanson
9 June 2017 at 13:03

Does your office blog? Charles Mabbett
31 May 2017 at 14:53

Should agencies leave no stone unturned? Charles Mabbett
10 May 2017 at 09:31

BSA says media use of Facebook photos breached victims’ privacy Joanna Hayward
1 May 2017 at 17:09

Commissioner's US diary - part four John Edwards
27 April 2017 at 10:28