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Human Error Leading Cause Of Privacy Breaches
Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 9:13 am | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
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 ... More >>
Liz MacPherson Appointed As Deputy Privacy Commissioner To Manage Transition
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 10:16 am | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards is pleased to announce the appointment of Liz MacPherson as Deputy Privacy Commissioner, while the recruitment for his replacement takes place. This is the first time that a Deputy Privacy Commissioner has been appointed. ... More >>
Privacy Commissioner Cracks Down On Compliance In Rental accommodation Sector
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 9:04 am | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has today launched a new compliance monitoring programme to ensure that property managers and agencies are acting in accordance with the Privacy Act. Through the compliance monitoring programme, OPC ... More >>
Commissioner warns against paper-based contact tracing
Friday, 17 September 2021, 9:39 am | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards is concerned that people are gaining access to personal information from paper-based contact tracing registers and using it in ways that breach peoples’ privacy. The Government’s introduction of mandatory record ... More >>
Privacy Commissioner issues first compliance notice
Wednesday, 15 September 2021, 9:54 am | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
The Privacy Commissioner has today issued a compliance notice to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, triggered by a cyber-attack in December 2020. More >>
Mystery shoppers spot check credit reporters
Thursday, 16 May 2019, 3:57 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
The Privacy Commissioner today [ 14 May ] released a new report outlining shortcomings of New Zealand’s three national consumer credit reporting companies. More >>
Commissioner welcomes Select Committee’s Privacy Bill report
Thursday, 16 May 2019, 3:55 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards today [ 13 May ] welcomed the Justice Select Committee’s report on the Privacy Bill. More >>
MSD systematically misused its investigatory powers
Thursday, 16 May 2019, 10:22 am | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
An Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) inquiry has found the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) systematically misused its investigatory powers while pursuing benefit fraud, unjustifiably intruding on the privacy of many beneficiaries. More >>
Commissioners pleased to collaborate over Privacy Week
Thursday, 10 May 2018, 3:10 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
The Privacy Commissioner and the Domain Name Commissioner have developed guidance on privacy and domains, which will foster greater awareness of good privacy practices in the .nz domain name space. More >>
Facebook on NZers impacted by Cambridge Analytics breach
Monday, 9 April 2018, 4:16 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
We have been notified by Facebook that a total of 63,724 people in New Zealand may have been impacted by the Cambridge Analytica data breach. More >>
PrivacyLive Speaker Series: Working Towards Trusted Data Use
Friday, 6 April 2018, 4:22 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
PrivacyLive Speaker Series: Working Towards Trusted Data Use Join us for this PrivacyLive Forum and learn about the Data Futures Partnership’s Guidelines for Trusted Data Use from one of its authors, Professor Rhema Vaithianathan, at our free public PrivacyLive ... More >>
Operation Painter: Findings in privacy investigation
Thursday, 15 March 2018, 12:29 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards says a Police checkpoint in 2016 unlawfully and unfairly collected personal information, harming some of the people affected. More >>
Discussing George Orwell’s 1984 in 2018
Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 2:23 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Join the discussion. Orwell’s 1984 was a book, a film, a play… and, 34 years after it was set, is it our reality? Is there more to say about this dystopian touchstone of privacy, surveillance and identity, 70 years since the book hit the shelves? More >>
Doctorow on machine learning, big data and privacy
Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 4:55 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is delighted to welcome Cory Doctorow, a pioneering international commentator on internet and digital technology, for a lunchtime PrivacyLive forum. More >>
Orwell’s 1984: A book, a film, a play… and now a reality?
Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 2:54 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and Auckland Arts Festival present: Privacy perspectives from the arts, media and a State Watchdog More >>
Collection of client data "excessive and disproportionate"
Thursday, 6 April 2017, 9:58 am | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
A Ministry of Social Development (MSD) policy requiring social service providers to disclose information about all their clients is excessive and inconsistent with the privacy principles, says Privacy Commissioner John Edwards. More >>
Privacy Commissioner releases 2016 credit assurance reports
Thursday, 23 March 2017, 10:56 am | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards has released the annual compliance assurance reports submitted by the three national credit reporting companies. More >>
Privacy Commissioner recommends Privacy Act reform
Friday, 3 February 2017, 1:21 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards has recommended to Government, as part of its plans to reform the Privacy Act, that the penalty for a serious breach of personal information could be a fine of up to $1 million. More >>
Privacy Commissioner launches review of credit reporting law
Friday, 30 September 2016, 2:20 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards today released a discussion paper inviting submissions on whether ‘positive credit reporting’, introduced to New Zealand following a law change five years ago, has been a success and whether the law was operating satisfactorily. More >>
Privacy Commissioner monitoring Yahoo hack
Monday, 26 September 2016, 3:14 pm | Office of the Privacy Commissioner
The Privacy Commissioner is monitoring the Yahoo hack that compromised up to 500 million users’ accounts. More >>
