Office of the Privacy Commissioner (New Zealand)

Office of the Privacy Commissioner (New Zealand) Welcome to the New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s page for news, discussion and events relating to privacy.

For more information about the Office and our work, please visit our website www.privacy.org.nz The Privacy Act sets out how information about people is collected, stored, used and disclosed. It also gives people the right to ask for information about themselves, and the right to ask for it to be corrected if it's wrong. The Privacy Commissioner is independent of government. The current Commission

er is John Edwards. He has a wide range of functions under the Act. These include:

• making public statements on matters affecting individual privacy
• investigating complaints about breaches of privacy
• monitoring and examining the impact that technology has upon privacy
• developing codes of practice for specific industries or sectors
• examining new legislation for its possible impact on individual privacy
• developing tools and resources to help make privacy easy

To read more about these functions and our other work, and for more detailed information about what the law says, please visit our website at www.privacy.org.nz

Address

215 Lambton Quay
Wellington
6011

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

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+64800803909

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