Posts Tagged 'personal information'

Privacy law revision overdue

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Recent interest in privacy law has spiked with the discovery that Cambridge Analytica used data obtained from Facebook to influence global politics, including the 2016 election of US President Donald Trump.  The company improperly acquired data from Facebook users, prompting Facebook to ban the firm from its platform.

There have been significant technological advances since the Privacy Act 1993 was introduced, and the Cambridge Analytica situation shows that the revision of New Zealand’s privacy laws is long overdue.

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Don’t risk breaching privacy

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Media has been overflowing with breaches of privacy lately; the GCSB; Buller District Council dumping (in public view) financial records about ratepayers; client files/information lost on public transport; and the release of private information relating to earthquake-damaged homes.

The workplace is not immune from the present scrutiny about how we manage private information.  Tensions arise about where the balance fairly sits regarding the employer’s “right to know” and employee’s “right to privacy”.  This is particularly pertinent when considering the many ways ...

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