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The New Zealand Court of Appeal in a bare majority in Hosking v Runting accepted that there was a tort of privacy in New Zealand. The tort was affirmed as protection in this area was needed and the breach of confidence tort was not suitable to cover situations involving privacy. [ 22 ]
Writing for the Auckland Law School, Nikki Chamberlain and Stephen Penk say that the Act is outdated, saying that "our new Act does not adequately address the risks of the 21st century" and "there is a real need to develop the law around misappropriation of personality to protect an individual's right to identity privacy", and that the Act does ...
The Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) is an act of the New Zealand Parliament which creates a public right to access information held by government bodies. It is New Zealand's primary freedom of information law and has become an important part of New Zealand's constitutional framework.
Many of the changes are based on recommendations from the New Zealand Law Commission's 2011 review of New Zealand's privacy laws. List of privacy commissioners [ edit ]
A credit reporter must take the following measures to safeguard the credit information it holds against unauthorised access or misuse: (a) develop written policies and procedures to be followed by its employees, agents and contractors; (b) impose access authentication controls such as the use of passwords, credential tokens or other mechanisms ...
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Thus, gathering information for the official census, recording fingerprints and photographs in a police register, collecting medical data or details of personal expenditures, and implementing a system of personal identification has been judged to raise data privacy issues. What also falls under "privacy-sensitive data" under the GDPR is such ...
Anyone can make a complaint about a publication or broadcast in New Zealand that they believe does not comply with the criteria. Different criteria apply to TV/radio programmes, a newspaper article , privacy issues, an advertisement in any media, and any human rights issue, including discrimination and bias.