Privacy law reform resources

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:04:14 +1200

The Privacy Commissioner periodically reviews New Zealand’s Privacy Act with a view to offering recommendations for improvements. Occasionally other bodies, such as the Law Commission, also review aspects of privacy law. Recommendations for law reform sometimes result in bills before Parliament.

Details

The Law Commission has completed the first stage of a review of New Zealand's privacy laws

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:01:20 +1300

The Law Commission has released a study paper, which outlines a range a privacy-related legal issues. The paper is available on the Law Commission website

Law Commission - Public Registers Issues Paper

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:03:04 +1200

The consultative part of Stage 2 of the Law Commission's review of privacy is under way. Submissions and comments welcome. Closing date for submissions is 5 November 2007. The paper is available on the Law Commission website

APPA Forum 2007

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:53:01 +1300

28th Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities Forum: 30 November – 1 December 2007

Wellington, New Zealand

Communiqué

The 28th Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) Forum was held in Wellington, New Zealand on Friday 30 November and Saturday 1 December 2007.

In attendance were representatives of the privacy authorities from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Korea, New South Wales, New Zealand, Northern Territory and Victoria and, as an observer, the UK. Several New Zealand officials and a representative from the South Australian Privacy Committee participated for part of the meeting.

APPA’s principal objectives are to:
• facilitate the sharing of knowledge and resources between privacy authorities within the Asia Pacific
• foster cooperation in privacy and data protection
• promote best practice amongst privacy authorities
• work continuously to improve performance of privacy authorities to achieve the important objectives set out in privacy laws.

Membership
APPA was pleased to announce that since the last meeting, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada had accepted an invitation to join, broadening the forum’s membership from eight authorities to nine.

Programme
The forum received reports on developments in the various jurisdictions and held discussions on a range of privacy topics. It continued its practice of learning from other stakeholders’ experiences including private industry, civil society and law reform bodies. Presentations were received from:
• two technology companies developing consumer products utilising GPS and RFID
• an international standard setting body involved in RFID and product coding
• the New Zealand Law Commission
• a charitable foundation working to keep young children safe on-line
• an international NGO on developments in security breach notification.

International developments
APPA members reviewed some of the privacy initiatives taken at international level during the last 6 months and in particular discussed an APEC Pathfinder project on cross-border privacy rules and OECD work focusing on the future of the internet economy.

APPA members re-committed to progressing the implementation of the APEC Privacy Framework including working individually on some of the projects included in the Data Privacy Pathfinder work plan. The privacy regulators who make up the APPA membership see themselves as playing a significant role in furthering the work of the APEC Data Privacy Sub-Group

Privacy Awareness Week
The forum reviewed the success of the first Asia Pacific Privacy Awareness Week held earlier in the year. Discussion focused upon how to more effectively communicate privacy messages to the public. APPA members agreed to plan for a second Privacy Awareness Week to be held in the last week of August 2008.

Next meeting
The next meeting of the forum will be held in Seoul, Korea on 19-20 June 2008.

Biometrics Institute Technology Exhibition (+ Closed Door Government Sessions)

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:03:20 +1200

BIT Exhibition
Contact: member@biometricsinstitute.org

APPA

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:12:30 +1200

See what events and promotional items our international partners have for Privacy Awareness Week. http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/

WorldLII - Privacy Law Project

Fri, 12 May 2006 15:18:26 +1200

http://www.worldlii.org/int/special/privacy/