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Agency averts harm by recalling email
One data breach provided an example of how it is sometimes possible to catch a breach as it is happening and avert potential harm.
An email was sent to the wrong person in the sender’s address list. We have probably all done this at least once. If you are quick, you can sometimes recall the email, … -
Case note 102741 [2008] NZPrivCmr 13: Recruitment agency discloses applicant's email address to other email recipients
A recruitment agency sent an email out to a number of its clients with each of the clients' email addresses visible. One of the clients complained to the agency about the disclosure of his email address, and received an apology. He did not consider that the apology was satisfactory in the circumstan…
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Privacy Commissioner frustrated by firearms privacy breach
The Privacy Commissioner is frustrated by the New Zealand Police’s recent serious privacy breach.
The breach involved the inadvertent disclosure of 147 firearm owner’s email addresses by Te Tari Pūreke, the police’s new firearms safety authority on Wednesday, 26 July, 2023.
“This is frustrating, g… -
Secure email for health information
Fast, accurate and complete information flows in the health sector are vital for all of us. If your doctor doesn’t have a particular test result, prescription or diagnosis, it might endanger your safety or even your life. Because of this, medical communication systems have tended to prioritise simpl…
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Case Note 84948 [2006] NZ PrivCmr 4 - Woman complains about former employer's refusal to give access to an email
Following an employment dispute, a woman requested access to personal information held by her former employer. The employer withheld one document, an email sent by another employee to the Human Resources Manager regarding an incident that occurred between the woman and that employee. The woman compl…
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Breach Case 3: Catches win matches
A recent data breach provided an example of how it is sometimes possible to catch a breach as it is happening and avert potential harm.
An email was sent to the wrong person in the sender’s address list. We have probably all done this at least once. If you are quick, you can sometimes recall the em… -
Outlook’s email trap for the unwary
Many an email has gone to the wrong recipient because a sender has unwittingly accepted an incorrect auto-complete entry. For this reason, like many others, we encouraged all our users to disable auto-complete.
We also encouraged them to disable Outlook’s “Automatic name checking”. This feature res… -
Is it wrong to send personal emails to work addresses?
Is it acceptable for a lawyer acting for a client to send a very private communication to a work email address of the other party?
A complaint based on exactly this kind of scenario was made to the Legal Complaints Review Officer (LCRO) who provides independent oversight and review of the decisions… -
Case note 287145 [2017] NZPriv Cmr 12: Academic denied request for 12,000 work emails
An academic who was dismissed from his university position requested all of his work emails from a 12 month period of his employment. He asked to be given a computer hard drive containing all the emails. The university refused the request. It said the information amounted to about 12,000 emails and…
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Case Note 90682 [2006] NZPrivCmr 10 - University refuses to release email correspondence between thesis examiners
A PhD student requested access to the email correspondence that had taken place between the examiners of her thesis. In particular, the student wanted email correspondence that had occurred after the examiners had written their reports about her thesis but prior to the release of those reports to he…