Case Note 218236 [2011] NZ Priv Cmr 4: Man objects to pre-employment screening
A man applied for a job in a government department. The man was unsuccessful and made a request for personal information regarding his application.
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A man applied for a job in a government department. The man was unsuccessful and made a request for personal information regarding his application.
A debt collection agency had been attempting to contact a woman at her workplace.
A man received final demand letters from a credit agency about a tenancy debt that he did not owe.
A man was donating blood. During a conversation with the nurse taking his blood, he established that they had a mutual friend.
A woman requested access to the late mother's health information. Three agencies refused to provide the information with the other executor's authority.
A man asked an agency for copies of the complaints it received about him. The agency gave him a summary of the complaints but not the actual copies.
A man had an unlisted telephone number for personal safety reasons. But his new telephone number was published in a publicly available online directory.
Executive summary; the finding from our inquiry; Google has given us undertakings; background to the enquiry; Our view of how the privacy principles apply to the collection; The outcome of the inquiry; Conclusion
Annual Report of the Privacy Commissioner for the year ended June 2010.
The Privacy Commissioner's submission focuses on clause 69 of the Courts and Criminal Matters Bill, which amends the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 to authorise:
Clause 69 would create significant privacy impacts for the people of New Zealand through these new disclosures and uses of their personal information.
View the full submission.
9 July 2010