1 February 2010

A woman incurred a small debt which was transferred to a debt collector due to her failure to pay it by a certain time.

1 February 2009

A woman was engaged in an argument with a district council. She spoke to the local newspaper about the dispute, and the newspaper then published an article.

1 February 2009

A man asked a government agency for the information it held about him, particularly legally privileged documents and copies of complaints made about him.

1 February 2009

A man discovered that Police had been informed that he had assaulted a young woman. Police had noted the information on its National Intelligence Application.

1 February 2009

A woman submitted a hardship application to the MSD in relation to a debt she owed to the Ministry. MSD requested all her financial information from her bank.

1 February 2009

A man took his computer to a computer company for repair. The company advised him that it would have to copy his hard drive to determine the problem.

1 February 2009

A health centre was conducting a health promotion campaign. It asked an employee whether it could take photographs of her and her daughter to use promotionally.

1 February 2009

A man complained that Secondhand Dealers' licences contain a holder's DOB. The man was concerned that publicly displaying this information was a privacy breach.

1 February 2009

A government employee lost a file in an Auckland street. The file contained a list with personal information about a large number of individuals.

1 February 2009

A bank discovered that a teller had accessed a couple's joint bank account without authorisation 58 times over two months.