Source: Privacy Commissioner
Research shows the risk to New Zealanders privacy is on the rise but there are ways that people can protect themselves. Whenever we are online, our private personal information is being recorded in various ways, and often sold in ways you dont know about says Privacy Commissioner, Michael Webster. New Zealanders love the internet. But every webpage we visit, every item we put in our online shopping baskets, and every time we upload an image to social media, if we havent actively protected it, we are risking our personal information.
Using Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) data and combining it with information from leading digital agencies, OPC has created a report looking at five areas where New Zealanders are most at risk online. These include:
Online scams and frauds
The secret costs of social media
Online tracking
Childrens online safety
Emerging technologies such as biometrics and AI.
