Your health information: your rights - new guidance from the Privacy Commissioner
As part of Privacy Awareness Week 2011, the Privacy Commissioner released a privacy toolkit aimed at both health consumers and health providers.
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As part of Privacy Awareness Week 2011, the Privacy Commissioner released a privacy toolkit aimed at both health consumers and health providers.
The Privacy Commissioner releases guidance for small to medium sized businesses (SMEs), to help them protect personal information when using cloud computing.
Privacy Commissioner announced proposed amendments to the Health Information Privacy Code.
Privacy Commissioner has strengthened the Health Information Privacy Code 1994 to improve legal protections around newborn babies’ bloodspot samples.
The Privacy Commissioner says that public sector agencies needed to have stronger controls in place when handling spread sheets of personal information.
This page details what a PIA is and how it is an essential part of many projects and proposals, and can be used to identify potential risks.
On this page you will find the disclosure statements and expense reports for the OPC.
Privacy Week 2021 took place from 10-14 May. The theme was Make privacy a priority.
This half-day event was held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Wellington on Friday 14 May 2021.
The final programme for the Privacy Forum is now available here. The programme includes:
A PrivacyLive forum in Auckland on Monday 10 May 2021 was moderated by the Privacy Commissioner. The topic of the PrivacyLive forum was The Privacy Act 2020: Six months on, with guest panellists Rick Shera of Lowndes Jordan, Sarah Auvaa of Spark and Sarah Thompson of Air New Zealand.
Fancy yourself a privacy expert? Test your knowledge with our 15-question Privacy Week quiz.
To mark Privacy Week, we have published our first stocktake of privacy breach reporting since it became mandatory to report serious privacy breaches on 1 December 2020.
Download our infographic for a snapshot of what we've seen in the first four months of notifiable privacy breaches: Privacy breach reporting infographic.
Download our Privacy Week posters to display in your workplace: Privacy Week 2021 posters. The posters can be printed in A3 or A4 size.
The posters are also available in te reo Māori: Wiki Tūmataiti 2021 posters.
A limited number of physical copies will be available to order. Please email comms@privacy.org.nz to request physical copies.
Use our tiles to promote Privacy Week on your organisation's website, intranet and social media. If you have specific image size requirements, please get in touch with comms@privacy.org.nz.
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We also have the resources from our Privacy is precious campaign to inform New Zealanders about the new Privacy Act 2020. You can find our Privacy is precious resources here and information about the Privacy Act 2020 here.
We will continue to make announcements regarding Privacy Week in Privacy News and on this page.
Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities mark Privacy Awareness Week
Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) is an initiative by the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) network. Each year, APPA produces posters in the languages of the APPA network. You can find out more about APPA here and download the full range of APPA's PAW posters here.
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This page sets out the expectations of the Office of Privacy Commissioner with respect to the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) by agencies.