Privacy Commissioner accuses Facebook of thumbing nose at New Zealand law

Privacy Commissioner accuses Facebook of thumbing nose at New Zealand law
Nikki Mandow
By Nikki Mandow March 28 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand’s government may not have evicted any Russian spies this week but its Privacy Commissioner today joined international allies blasting Facebook for a lax attitude to data privacy. Not Cambridge Analytica this time. Instead, Privacy Commissioner John Edwards is accusing Facebook of refusing to release information it holds on a particular individual, despite being obliged to do so under the Privacy Act (which gives New Zealanders the right to find out what information an agency holds abou...