Source: Privacy Commissioner
Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster today welcomed the BSAs decision which found RNZ breached the privacy and fairness standards when it broadcast sensitive details about a childs care. Hackers released information about the childs situation, and others, onto the dark web as part of a cyber-attack on the former Waikato DHB. Our Office publicly warned against accessing this material given the circumstances in which it was made available. The Privacy Commissioner complained to the BSA last year after RNZ accessed the stolen information and broadcast sensitive details concerning the unique aspects of a childs care in a way that was identifiable, and risked causing significant harm to them, their whnau, and caregivers. Today, the BSA released its decision agreeing that the breach of the child and their whnaus privacy was serious and was not justified in the public interest.
