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Case note 289320 [2019] NZPriv Cmr 3: Corrections employee accessed complainant's record and disclosed information
A man complained that his criminal record had been accessed by a Department of Corrections employee.
Case note 282483 [2019] NZPriv Cmr 2: Social service agency questions complainant’s harm
A social service agency that caused unnecessary delays in resolving a complaint left a woman feeling vulnerable and unimportant.
Case note 294247 [2019] NZPriv Cmr 1: Phone provider refuses access to incoming data
A man asked his phone provider for records of calls from his landlord and texts that they had exchanged. The provider refused because the man had received the calls and texts rather than sent them.
Submission on the Privacy Bill
Read the Privacy Commissioner’s Submission on the Privacy Bill to the Justice and Electoral Select Committee.
Case Note 285353 [2018] NZPriv Cmr 3: Passenger makes vexatious requests to airline
A passenger contacted an airline, requesting all the information they had about him relating to a ticket dispute.
Case Note 276280 [2018] NZPriv Cmr 2: Staff told of employee sacked for drug use
A woman was dismissed by her employer after drugs and drug-taking tools were seen in her car while it was parked in the company carpark. Three days after her dismissal, her manager emailed all employees disclosing the circumstances of her dismissal. The woman complained to our office.
Case note 285231 [2017] NZ PrivCmr 9: Couple says repair service damaged their car
A couple claimed a vehicle repair service damaged their car engine and were then denied information about what happened to the car while it was at the service centre. The couple said information about the car was personal information and they should have access to it. They made a complaint to our office. Read our case note on the complaint.
Case note 282974 [2017] NZ PrivCmr 7: Woman wants Police to correct record of wilful damage incident
A woman complained to our office that Police failed to adequately respond to her request for information about a wilful damage incident at her home in 2015. The woman said Police made a significant mistake in noting her account of the incident and she had tried without success to get Police to change it.
Case Note 279251 [2017] NZ PrivCmr 4 - Police were right to disclose mental health information
Read our latest case note in which Police used the Privacy Act's 'serious threat' exemption to disclose health information about a woman who told a police officer she was feeling suicidal.
Case note 277483 [2017] NZ PrivCmr 3 - CYF wrongly noted father had sexual abuse convictions
A man complained to the Privacy Commissioner that Child Youth and Family (CYF) records incorrectly showed he had been jailed for sexual offending, and this information had never been corrected on his file.