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The Privacy Commissioner sometimes intervenes in a court case if the case involves issues that are relevant to privacy, or if it could impact how privacy laws are interpreted and applied. “Intervening” means that the Privacy Commissioner makes submissions (provides information or a perspective) to the Court as an independent expert in privacy.
These are some examples of cases where the Commissioner has intervened to help serve the public interest.
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The Privacy Commissioner intervened in judicial review proceedings in relation to the disclosure of Māori vaccination information.
The Human Rights Review Tribunal found that the Crown had interfered with Kim Dotcom’s privacy in declining the multiple, near identical, Privacy Act requests.
