Privacy Week 2021: an update – including when privacy can be misleading – Lexology

Update on the first 6 months of the Privacy Act 2020
Welcome to New Zealand’s Privacy Week 2021. The Privacy Act 2020 has now been in force for nearly six months. To celebrate Privacy Week, we were again fortunate enough to have the Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards, come and speak to our team and clients. Some of the key take-outs from the session were:

• As expected, since the new Act brought in a mandatory breach notification regime, there has been a 97% increase in the number of reported breaches…

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