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· August 6, 2025
Source: New Zealand Government The Government is progressing a package of major fisheries reforms that will remove obstacles to the fishing industry achieving its enormous potential for sustainable growth, Oceans...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: Privacy Commissioner 6 Aug 2025, 09:00 New Zealand now has new privacy rules for the automated use of biometrics – rules that aim to protect New Zealander’s sensitive personal...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: New Zealand Police Auckland City Police are investigating the circumstances of a man’s death in Mt Wellington this morning. At around 1.30am, Police were called to a hardware retail...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: New Zealand Government New Zealand is set to welcome the world’s top athletes as Tauranga is announced as the host city for a series of World Triathlon events over...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: New Zealand Police Police can advise a pedestrian critically injured in a crash in Onehunga on 4 August has died. A crash involving a bus and pedestrian was reported...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: New Zealand Police Police are renewing an appeal for information following the continuation of incidents of powerline tampering and theft across the Christchurch region. Acting Detective Sergeant Steph Trengrove,...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: Privacy Commissioner About the code The Biometric Processing Privacy Code 2025 was issued on 21 July 2025. The Code will come into force on: 3 November 2025 for biometric...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: Privacy Commissioner Read the Biometric Processing Privacy Code. This guidance on the Biometric Processing Privacy Code (the Code) is to help organisations and individuals understand the Code and how...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: BNZ Statements New Zealand businesses excel at operational fundamentals, but many are missing strategic opportunities that could accelerate growth, new research from Bank of New Zealand reveals. “We’re at...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: New Zealand Police With the annual National Wild Goat Hunting Competition now underway, hunters are being reminded that everyone can be a firearms safety G.O.A.T. [Greatest Of All Time]....
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· August 6, 2025
Source: New Zealand Police Canterbury Police are undertaking a staff consultation process to ensure the district has the right people in the right place at the right time. District Commander...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog The Human Rights Review Tribunal has dismissed a claim by a prisoner that the Department of Corrections interfered with his privacy by withholding...
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· August 6, 2025
Source: Cotality Property values in Aotearoa New Zealand edged down by -0.2% in July, according to Cotality NZ’s latest hedonic Home Value Index (HVI). The result mirrors the annual change,...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog Should you have to disclose to your insurance company if you’ve taken a genetic test and learnt you have the gene for a...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog This summary was written by Rachel Levinson-Waldman, who served with OPC as a 2024 Ian Axford Fellow in Public Policy. Read her in-depth report....
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog When parents split up, this can sometimes create a fraught situation for agencies involved in providing care and services to their children, and...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog The Human Rights Review Tribunal recently found that the Parole Board breached the Privacy Act when it disclosed an offender’s parole address, with...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog Please note – this article is under review. Section 54 was a provision in the 1993 Privacy Act, which was replaced in December...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog Following the tragic events of Christchurch in March 2019, gun reform is a legislative priority. The Government recently introduced the Arms Legislation Bill...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog Reviewed for relevance April 2025. A fortnight ago, Europe’s top court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Google will not be...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog Investigating complaints is an important function of our office and a considerable part of our workload. When we receive a complaint, we make...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog One of the most persistent problems of privacy and data protection in the digital age moving the responsibility from consumers needing to read...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog In July 2017, our office made two short videos featuring the Privacy Commissioner promoting child safety and describing what people can do if...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog We’ll be saying it for the rest of this year because we want everyone to be aware and ready for it when it...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog The parents of a profoundly disabled boy took a case to the Human Rights Review Tribunal [2020 HRRT 13] on their son’s behalf...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog An Auckland Powershop customer did the right thing by checking her credit report after the company said she was in arrears, even though...
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· August 5, 2025
Source: New Zealand Privacy Commissioner – Blog The Human Rights Review Tribunal [2020 HRRT 16] awarded $50,000 to an ACC claimant after it was found to have breached the Privacy...