Compliance comment - Utility providers' poor ID verification processes lead to customer harm
We've had notifications of privacy breaches from utilities providers - sometimes only coming to light when the affected individual had already been harmed.
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When our Compliance Team works on a privacy breach notification, they often see things that others could learn from. Decision Notes tell the stories and reasoning behind the decisions of our Compliance Team's work.
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We've had notifications of privacy breaches from utilities providers - sometimes only coming to light when the affected individual had already been harmed.
An enforcement officer collected contact details of an individual who was lawfully being questioned and use them to harass that person.
A fraudster was able to make changes to a customer’s account and when the customer contacted the business their privacy concerns were overlooked.
A two-year delay in reporting a notifiable privacy breach to the Privacy Commissioner raised several privacy issues.
In early 2023, we received a series of complaints and enquiries about property ownership information published on web platform WhatDoesMyLandlordOwn.org.nz.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has issued a compliance notice to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has run a second trial on government and law enforcement requests and demands for personal information.
The Privacy Commissioner has named a photography business, Expression Sessions Ltd, (Expression Sessions) as the result of a complaint.
The Privacy Commissioner has found that TD Drilling breached principles 5 and 6 of the Privacy Act in withholding and then losing employee information.
The Privacy Commissioner has received over 100 complaints and enquiries to date about the privacy implications of local govt property and building information.
The Privacy Commissioner has conducted an investigation into Profile Engine’s process for deleting personal information on request.
Report by the Privacy Commissioner into Veda Advantage’s charge for urgent requests for personal information.
The Chief Ombudsman and the Privacy Commissioner undertook a joint investigation on the Earthquake Commission's handling of information requests in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes.