Due to a stream of enquiries from the public to our office about customer data, we have been in touch with the legal advisers of the receivers of Dick Smith Electronics.

We have received assurances that the receivers are aware of and will comply with their obligations under the New Zealand and Aust…

If you have other people’s personal information, it is your responsibility to keep it safe. There are many reasons why you need to keep that information secure. Here’s one recent example of how careless disclosure can put people at risk.

In July, WikiLeaks dumped a lot of files of personal informat…

A father of two young children complained to the Privacy Commissioner after a disputed debt with a childcare centre was referred to a debt collection agency that in turn referred it to a credit reporting agency. The man had withdrawn his children from the centre because he had concerns over his chil…

Here you can find our resources on the new Privacy Act 2020.

We are providing regular email updates to highlight our latest Privacy Act 2020 materials as they become available. See the latest editions below or sign up here to receive our regular email updates.

Privacy Act 2020: Update 1
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A woman alleged to have made a threat against a utility company’s workers says she made repeated requests for her personal information to the company.

The utility company says it responded to her requests the best it could, and it regarded the subsequent repeated requests as frivolous and vexatiou…