CA525/2021 [2023] NZCA 163: Landmark privacy case from the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has released its unanimous decision about Police photography during a random traffic stop.
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The Privacy Commissioner sometimes intervenes in a court case if the case involves issues that are relevant to privacy, or if it could impact how privacy laws are interpreted and applied. “Intervening” means that the Privacy Commissioner makes submissions (provides information or a perspective) to the Court as an independent expert in privacy.
These are some examples of cases where the Commissioner has intervened to help serve the public interest.
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The Court of Appeal has released its unanimous decision about Police photography during a random traffic stop.
The Privacy Commissioner intervened in judicial review proceedings in relation to the disclosure of Māori vaccination information.
International transfers of personal data are under the spotlight again following a recent decision of the European Court of Justice.
When is information your personal information? Does it include references to other people that just happen to be on a file with your name on it?
The High Court’s decision on the proceedings brought by Rt Hon Winston Peters is a welcome and useful addition to the case law on the tort of privacy.
A former nurse who waited five years to lodge a privacy complaint with the Privacy Commissioner had her request for judgement rejected.
In this decision, the Supreme Court clarified the law relating to sections 125 and 126 of the Crimes Act 1961, relating to indecent acts.
The Human Rights Review Tribunal found that the Crown had interfered with Kim Dotcom’s privacy in declining the multiple, near identical, Privacy Act requests.
Read the Privacy Commissioner's Commentary on R v Alsford: voluntary requests for personal information by law enforcement agencies.