Privacy Commissioner / Te Mana Mātāpono Matatapu
- The Office of the Privacy Commissioner investigates complaints about breaches of privacy, runs education programmes, and examines how proposed legislation could affect individual privacy.
- Makes public statements on matters affecting individual privacy, builds and promotes an understanding of privacy principles, and monitors and examines technology’s impact on privacy.
- Developes codes of practice for industries or sectors, examines draft legislation for possible impact, monitors inter-government department data-matching programmes and investigates possible breaches of individual privacy.
- Receives reports of notifiable privacy breaches, monitors and enforces compliance with the Privacy Act, and reports on matters affecting privacy, both domestic and international.
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