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Notable increase in data breaches reported
This year make your new year’s resolution to be across your privacy obligations.
There has been a notable increase in data breaches reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, prompting a reminder to agencies and businesses that they must protect the data of the public they hold.
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The value of a phone call
Digital communication is ubiquitous: a hair salon sends you text messages reminding you of appointments; movie tickets are booked through apps on your phone – and you wave a card in the air to pay for groceries. Our expectations might be that our health records can be also be swiftly and easily tran…
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Case note 299301 [2019] NZPriv Cmr 10: Woman’s search for new job disclosed to employer
A woman who was unhappy in her job made an enquiry to an employment agency about changing jobs. But the agency breached her privacy by disclosing her enquiry to her current employer.
The woman was considering a change of career and contacted the employment agency to get advice on what her salary mi… -
Case 323867 [2023] NZPrivCmr 4: Failure to check templates leads to $15,000 settlement
Background – Data retention and disclosure of identifying informationIn 2021, a woman completed a form asking a government agency to review its decision on an outstanding debt. Several months later, the woman received a message from a stranger through a social media site. The stranger sent the woman…
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Fancy Bears hack shows spear phishing threat
Nobody likes their health information being made public. But for Olympic athletes, this has become an occupational hazard as allegations of cheating and the use of performance-enhancing drugs are exchanged between those found to be guilty and those who are clean.
This week, a group of hackers stole… -
Privacy Commissioner calls for public submissions on updating privacy codes
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is seeking public submissions on the proposed repeal and replacement of New Zealand’s six privacy codes of practice under the Privacy Act 2020.
The new Privacy Act 2020 is set to come into force on 1 December. It makes several key reforms to New Zealand’s priv… -
Your privacy rights
Personal information is any information that is about you or could identify you. Your name is the most basic example, but that’s just the beginning.
Other examples include your address, your contact details, your employment or medical records, bank details, a picture of your face, your NHI number,… -
Service charter – complaints and investigations
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner investigates and resolves privacy complaints. We are independent of government and the private sector. Our complaints service is free of charge.
This charter sets out what you can expect from us when you use our complaints service, and what we expect from you.… -
Harassment
Under section 49(1)(a)(ii), an agency can refuse to provide access to personal information if the disclosure would create a significant likelihood of serious harassment of an individual.
Privacy Act 2020 reference:
49. Protection, etc, of individual as reason for refusing access to personal inform… -
Customs, passwords and smartphones (oh my!)
There’s been a bit of murmuring on Twitter over the past couple of days because of this news story:
Customs’ discussion paper on the review of the Customs and Excise Act contains a number of proposals – one of which is a new power to require a person to provide passwords or encryption keys to acces…