Privacy Commissioner stories

Barely four months since the Privacy Act 2020 came into force, early indications appear to suggest that mandatory breach reporting regulations are working.More

“First AML conducts regular, detailed staff privacy and security training sessions and employs regular third-party audits that go above and beyond what is required by law."More

New Zealand’s new Privacy Act is now in effect, and there are significant changes that affect every organisation that operates in New Zealand.More

Privacy Commissioner John Edwards officially opened the centre this week, recognising SecOps’ efforts to provide managed security services to New Zealand businesses.More

Of 1398 polled New Zealanders, 65% are in favour of strong privacy regulation, 29% are happy with the same level of regulation, and 6% prefer less legislation.More

“Privacy is about being transparent and clear with customers and protecting their personal information. It’s about telling people what you’re collecting and what you’re going to do with it."More

Edwards has a clear message: If New Zealand businesses undermine the issue of privacy, they will ruin their business.More

The service has been put through a robust Privacy Impact Assessment and it was developed in accordance with New Zealand’s current privacy legislation.More

“We see privacy as key to building and maintaining customer trust,” says Air New Zealand chief.More

The Privacy Commissioner was seeking maximum breach fines of up to $1 million against body corporates.More

"Privacy is an essential human right and the online world has brought many changes and challenges to how privacy works in the Internet age."More

"Clearly, privacy matters to a number of individuals in the .nz domain name space," comments Domain Name Commissioner Brent Carey.More

RealMe and Trade Me’s Transparency Reporting websites are the first two recipients of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s new Privacy Trust Mark.More

Those on a lower income of $55,000 or less were more likely to be concerned about privacy (77%) than those with higher incomes (63%).More

New Zealand’s updated Privacy Bill is about to begin its first reading in Parliament with Andrew Little as the MP in charge.More

The fact that Yahoo may have known about the breach for a number of months before alerting the public shows why we need mandatory breach notification.More

The Police are now looking into the matter, via the National Cyber Crime Centre.More

Just how much privacy do you have these days? The internet poses the biggest single threat to privacy.More