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1. Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Bill [pdf, 173 KB]

   ...user-consented sharing of personal and organisational information online to access services and complete transactions. It is understood that the use of digital identity is believed to improve service delivery and reduce inefficiencies, security risks and privacy breaches. 2 Digital identity services are services, or a product, provided by a digital identity service provider that enable the sharing of the information by a user in a transaction with the relying party. d. enable the...

2. BORA Securities Trustees and Statutory Supervisors Bill [pdf, 310 KB]

   ...the reporting and disclosure requirements that may attract criminal liability relates to the regular reporting requirements of licence holders and investigation powers of the Commission. A trustee or supervisor would have a limited expectation of privacy in relation to the information sought by the Commission as expectations of privacy are not as great in the commercial world as they are in the domestic sphere. [9] In addition, the power to demand the production of documents is less of...

3. Financial Sector (Climate-related Disclosures and other matters) Amendment Bill [pdf, 203 KB]

   ...13. Section 21 of the Bill of Rights Act affirms that everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure, whether of the person, property, correspondence or otherwise. The right protects a number of values including personal privacy, dignity, and property.3 14. New sections 461ZJ and ZK of new Part 7A allow for an appointed CRD assurance practitioner to require information from a reporting entity, its director, or employees in relation to the CRD records of the cl...

4. NZ BORA Advice: Land Transport Clean Vehicles Amendment Bill [pdf, 214 KB]

   ...9. Section 21 of the Bill of Rights Act affirms that everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure, whether of the person, property, correspondence or otherwise. The right protects a number of values including personal privacy, dignity, and property.5 A search or seizure which is unreasonable in terms of s 21 cannot be justified in terms of s 5 of the Bill of Rights Act.6 Whether a search will be reasonable turns on a 3 Proposed s 185 of the Land Transport A...

5. LCRO 55/2018 ND v RS (18 April 2019) [pdf, 105 KB]

   ...ND, would pay for those services. [26] Dr ND was represented by [AB] throughout her dealings with Council and Ms RS. It is fair to observe that if there had been some ambiguity about the independent inquiry process, or its potential legal, privacy or other implications for Dr ND, Dr ND’s interests would have been a priority for [AB], rather than Ms RS. [AB]’s involvement as Dr ND’s lawyer effectively disposes of the allegations that Ms RS misled Dr ND as to her process o...

6. Urban Development Bill Advice [pdf, 131 KB]

   ...7. Section 21 of the Bill of Rights Act affirms that everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure, whether of the person, property, correspondence or otherwise. The right protects a number of values including personal privacy, dignity, and property.1 8. A search or seizure which is unreasonable in terms of s 21 cannot be justified in terms of s 5 of the Bill of Rights Act, as the Supreme Court has held that an unreasonable search logically cannot be reasonab...

7. Building (Building Products and Methods, Modular Components, and Other Matters) Amendment Bill [pdf, 126 KB]

   ...seizure 12. Section 21 of the Bill of Rights Act affirms the right of everyone to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure, whether of the person, property, correspondence or otherwise. The right protects a number of values including personal privacy, dignity, and property.2 13. Clause 55 proposes to add new s 207BB that will enable the chief executive, or a person with written authorisation from the chief executive, to enter any premises in order to inspect the following:...

8. TP v RO LCRO 174/2012 (7 November 2014) [pdf, 88 KB]

   ...blindness as a justification for sending the email to the non-parties, saying Mr VN has a programme on his computer that reads his emails to him, so he does not need to rely on people to do that for him. Mrs TP said Mr RO had breached her right to privacy under the Privacy Act, and seeks a number of remedies including compensation for stress and financial loss, and asks that certain business be removed from Mr RO’ office. [17] In response to Mrs TP’s review application, Mr RO r...

9. [2022] NZEmpC 178 UXK v Talent Propeller Ltd [pdf, 228 KB]

   ...medical practitioners involved to produce UXK’s confidential medical records for a period of several months in each instance. [17] After reviewing various provisions relating to the disclosure of health information under the Health Information Privacy Code, and the confidentiality provisions of the Evidence Act 2006, I noted that the Authority had not been asked by either party to undertake an analysis under s 69 of that Act. Thus, the privacy of sensitive medical records to be...

10. BORA Coroners Amendment Bill [pdf, 297 KB]

    ...person’s medical practitioner to provide report and medical records: cl 22 (Bill p 16) 9. Clause 22 of the Bill provides for a new s 40: “40 Coroner may require person’s doctor to provide report or health information Despite anything in the Privacy Act 1993 (or any code issued under that Act), a coroner may, by written notice to a doctor who attended a person before the person’s death, require the doctor to give the coroner either or both of the following: “(a) the person�...