Blog – Page 2

by Richard on 18 February 2020

Which Government departments have the most information collection, use and sharing provisions?

If you’ve read “Why we need to understand more than the Privacy Act“, you’ll know my view that we cannot fully understand how New Zealand law addresses the collection, use and sharing of personal information by understanding the Privacy Act alone. To obtain a full understanding, we often need to understand other laws and how they interact with the Privacy Act.

That’s all well and good, but just how many specific statutory provisions are there in our statute books that address or, given their breadth, could cover the collection, use and sharing of personal information?

by Richard on 27 January 2020

Why it’s important for the new coronavirus to be classified here as a notifiable infectious disease

The importance of having the right information at the right time

It goes without saying that the ability for health officials to:

obtain information on people suspected of having the new coronavirus;
to require tests to be undertaken if that’s considered necessary; and
if necessary, to quarantine people,

is vital to their ability to understand the prevalence and spread of the disease and to contain it.

by Richard on 11 December 2019

How to rein in IPP10 and IPP11 exceptions when sharing personal information

Introduction

As most people know, the Privacy Act’s information privacy principles 10 and 11, relating to the use and disclosure of personal information that an agency holds, are subject to a range of exceptions:

by Richard on 1 December 2019

How to get a side-by-side comparison of the old and new IPPs

Introduction

As most readers of StopLookGo Privacy will know, the information privacy principles (IPPs) lie at the heart of the Privacy Act 1993. The same is true of the new IPPs in the Privacy Bill.