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Privacy News
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Case note 229558 [2012] NZ PrivCmr 1 : Employer uses monitoring software to collect personal information
As part of an employment investigation, an employer collected personal information from a man's work computer.
The information collected included emails sent to and from the work computer, as well as key stroke logs for the computer.
The employer used information collected from key stroke logging … -
SUM () of all fears
"I do not believe it makes sense to say that [Excel spreadsheets]* are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role-as they have in the past. But clearly they have a power to do great harm." Des Browne, UK Defence Minister.
If you want to engineer a really good privacy b… -
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 found out about the email and complained…
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Staying safe online in 2016
Does working at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner make you paranoid? Well, it’s not quite that bad, but a New Zealand Herald article about cybercrime and identity theft prompted me to think about the number of my online profiles that use, or are linked to, my real identity.
I sat down at my co… -
Beware the phishers
The salutation on the email simply said “Hi”. It arrived at 4.36am on a public holiday in the inbox of a public facing email address, and it appeared to have been sent from a personal email address belonging to the organisation’s chief executive.
In the organisation’s unguarded response to the emai… -
Children and Young People’s Privacy project – facilitation pack for running your own workshop
Introduction
Sometimes, it’s easier to discuss issues as a group – this way you can hear things you haven’t thought about, or discuss some of the privacy issues you have experienced in your work.
This facilitation pack provides some tools and survey questions you can print out to help you run a wo… -
Human error leading cause of privacy breaches
Human error is the leading cause of serious privacy breaches, according to a new report released today by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC).
“We are seeing clear patterns emerging since mandatory reporting of serious privacy breaches came into effect with the Privacy Act 2020 on 1 Decem… -
Case Note 218337 [2010] NZ Priv Cmr 17: Customer's booking information disclosed on company website
A customer purchased travel related services from a company. The company sent him an email with a link to his booking details on its website. The customer noticed that the website url link ended with his booking number. He observed that by changing the booking number, he could view booking details f…
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Privacy Commissioner monitoring Yahoo hack
The Privacy Commissioner is monitoring the Yahoo hack that compromised up to 500 million users’ accounts.
The hack affects a small portion of the 825,000 email accounts that Spark provides to users through its partnership with Yahoo.
The hack exemplifies the international nature of privacy, with t…