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Due to illness, this lecture has been postponed.

Professor Nicole Moreham will deliver the 2023 Sir Bruce Slane Memorial Lecture on the topic of, Balancing privacy and other interests in the social media age. 

The lecture is a key event for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, and is named for the first Privacy Commissioner, Sir Bruce Slane. It is run in partnership with the Privacy Foundation.

Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster hosts the evening, bringing together guests who have a keen interest in privacy and privacy law.

“I’m  looking forward to an interesting and insightful lecture as well as engaging discussions about privacy.

“Professor Moreham is an accomplished speaker and thinker, and we are very pleased to have her deliver this important lecture,” says the Commissioner. The free event will run on:

Tuesday 29 August

6.15 lecture

Victoria University Law School, Lecture Theatre 1 (behind the main building), Government Buildings, 55 Lambton Quay, Pipitea. This is the second time the Sir Bruce Slane Memorial Lecture has been held since 2018.

The inaugural lectures, two held in 2018 in Wellington and Auckland were given by Hon Justice Helen Winkelmann.

They were held jointly with the Privacy Foundation to mark 25 years of the Privacy Act and to honour New Zealand’s first privacy commissioner, Sir Bruce Slane.

2023 marks 30 years of the Privacy Act.