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The Office of the Privacy Commissioner marks Privacy Week each year to promote privacy awareness and to inform people of their rights under the Privacy Act. It is also to help educate businesses, organisations and agencies of their responsibilities and obligations with personal information.
Privacy Week is done in conjunction with Privacy Awareness Week which is held by the Asia Paci...
Privacy Week 2016 (9-14 May) — "Privacy in your hands"
The UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Privacy, Professor Joseph Cannataci, will be visiting New Zealand during Privacy Week this year. While he is in New Zealand, he will give keynote presentations at our Privacy Forums in Wel...
View the keynote address given by the Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards, to the Asian Privacy Scholars Network on 13 December 2016 at the University of Auckland Business School.
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards gave a keynote address to the International Telecommunications Union at the World Telecommunications Standardisation Assembly.
The Privacy Commissioner John Edwards spoke as the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC) Chair at a Global Standards sympoisum in October 2016.
The Privacy Commissioner's presentation to the Transparency International Leadership Integrity Forum in Wellington on 27 September 2016. View the speech.
Speech given by the Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards to Christchurch insurance companies on 12 September 2016, and held at Southern Response Earthquake Services - Urupare ki te Tonga.
View the speech given by the Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards to the Banking and Financial Services Law Association Conference held in Queenstown, and given on 29 August 2016.
The Privacy Commissioner's speech to the 2016 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons' Conference "Surgery 2016: getting the measure of outcomes" held in Queenstown on 4/5 August 2016. A copy of the speech can be viewed here.
The Privacy Commissioner's speech to the Capital and Coast DHB's Grand Round at the University of Otago, Wellington on 7 April 2016. View a copy of the speech.
The Privacy Commissioner's speech to Supertech - the Employers' and Manufacturers' Association Inaugural Digital Technology Conference held in Auckland on 17 March 2016. View a copy of the speech.
The Privacy Commissioner's presentation to the Paediatric Society Child Protection Special Interest Group at Te Papa, Wellington on 24 November 2015. View a copy of the notes.