Privacy Commissioner - Te Mana Matapono Matatapu

Privacy Awareness Week

24 August – 30 August 2008

This year, Privacy Awareness Week is 24 - 30  August.  It is an annual promotion to raise awareness of the importance of protecting privacy. The theme for 2008 is "Privacy is your business".

Privacy Issues Forum

Click here to access details of the forum, including the programme and registration.

Welcome to our video competition for secondary school students!

Yes, it’s Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) competition time again – and this year, it’s a video competition.

We want to see and hear what secondary school students think about their privacy – in 2 minutes of video time.

This is a great opportunity for all you actors, writers, musicians, thinkers, designers, or techies to win a prize for yourselves or your school. You can enter in groups, as classes or as individuals. And you’re competing against students from Australia, Hong Kong and Canada as well as against fellow Kiwis. Guess who we’d like to win?!

The first prize is a video camera, and the second and third prizes are gift vouchers of AU$500 and $AU250 (or local equivalent). We’ll announce the winners during PAW (24-30 August). Plus, there’ll be a prize for the New Zealand winner and we’ll show the winning video at an event during PAW itself.

Due to great interest from students in the APPA (Asia and Pacific Privacy Authorities) regions, the closing date has been extended to 8 August 2008.   So get working with those cameras or computers! Download all the details below, and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Good luck!

The PAW team

Competition details:

• How to Enter  
• Terms and Conditions.

Competition forms:

• Entry Form
• Music Release Form
• Performance Release Form
• Location Release Form
• Art Release Form.

Download the competition details and competition forms below.

Please email us at competition@privacy.org.nz if you have any queries.