Mentions of Office of the Privacy Commissioner in New Zealand Parliament debates
Office of the Privacy Commissioner has been mentioned in 25 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Amendment Bill 2010
Second Reading 14 Jun 2011
Hon PHIL GOFF ... in order to enable the NZSIS to continue to effectively undertake its statutory functions.” Last but not least, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner did not oppose the bill, and noted that the warrant proposals represent an extension “in application” of existing powers ...
First Reading 9 Dec 2010
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... in the area of privacy and to ensure the proposals were calibrated against appropriate oversight arrangements, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, the Office of the Ombudsmen, the Commissioner of Security Warrants, and the inspector-general were consulted on the ...
Courts and Criminal Matters Bill 2010
Second Reading 16 Nov 2010
Hon GEORGINA TE HEUHEU ... Transport, the New Zealand Transport Agency, and the New Zealand Police, and in developing the bill, especially the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, the Department of Corrections, and the Ministry of Economic Development. The bill has also benefited considerably from ...
Identity Information Confirmation Bill
First Reading 19 Oct 2010
Dr RAJEN PRASAD ... laws in New Zealand are particularly good. They have held us in good stead over a long period of time. The very good Office of the Privacy Commissioner monitors this quite well and has been instrumental in taking New Zealand to quite a sophisticated level of data matching, ...
Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Bill
In Committee 9 Sep 2010
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... commend the Government—I think this is bipartisan because it transcends the change of Government—for the work of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner under Marie Shroff. For two terms—
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... Government. He will not hear it too often, so if he would just button up he might get this one. I think that the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is doing a good job on these issues. It has a large proportion of its staff looking at digital privacy issues, and that ...
Education Amendment Bill 2009
Second Reading 18 Mar 2010
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... be done automatically. I think we thought that there would not be a restriction on it. No doubt someone from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, or—God bless her—maybe Marie Shroff, can sometimes be slightly overzealous in that area. But there is no doubt that ...
Border (Customs, Excise, and Tariff) Processing Bill
Second Reading 26 Nov 2009
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... could work in his or her favour but is unable to provide that to a real person. This concern was reinforced by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, which, in its submission to the select committee, gave evidence that there should be a requirement that manual ...
Insolvency Amendment Bill 2009
Third Reading 29 Oct 2009
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... sufficient consultation with key stakeholders, and this was reinforced by the concerns that were expressed by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Veda Advantage recently stated: “The numbers of New Zealanders unable to meet their financial obligations continue to ...
STUART NASH ... that there has not been sufficient consultation with key stakeholders, which is reinforced by concerns raised by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Therefore, Labour would have preferred that the public register provisions be separated from the rest of the bill. I ...
In Committee 22 Jul 2009
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... brief analysis of the above options, officials’ preliminary recommendations, subject to further discussions with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, were to adopt options four and six above, as they would address, to a greater extent, the problem that was identified in ...
Second Reading 21 Jul 2009
CLARE CURRAN ... has not been sufficient consultation with key stakeholders, and that view is reinforced by the concerns raised by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. We would prefer that the public register provisions be separated from the rest of the bill. Just to highlight our ...
Privacy (Cross-border Information) Amendment Bill
First Reading 1 Apr 2009
CHESTER BORROWS ... between New Zealand and the European Union and other current developing trade partners. The Law Commission and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner agreed that the bill should go ahead at this time. It is good to be part of a Government that has recognised the need for ...
JONATHAN YOUNG ... our other current and developing trade partners. The bill has wide support. We note that the Law Commission and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner agree that the bill should go ahead at this time. The Privacy Act makes it clear that there are important trans-border ...
Corrections (Contract Management of Prisons) Amendment Bill
First Reading 24 Mar 2009
Hon JUDITH COLLINS ... out its appropriate tasks, duties, and functions effectively. The Department of Corrections is in discussion with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner as to how this should be managed. Advice will be provided to the select committee before the bill is considered. ...
General Debate 23 Jul 2008
JUDY TURNER ... that the Government has already moved to introduce an amendment bill on one of the three recommendations made by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, but on this issue of a “Do Not Call” register it has been strangely quiet. So too, in an election year, the National ...
Corrections (Social Assistance) Amendment Bill, Customs and Excise (Social Assistance) Amendment Bill, Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation (Social Assistance) Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 3 Apr 2008
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... through its third reading. One is the issue of overriding the Privacy Act. This posed a concern to officials from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, but they viewed it as being a reasonable thing to do because it is so important that tangible instruments are put in ...
Social Assistance (Debt Prevention and Minimisation) Amendment Bill
In Committee 19 Mar 2008
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... very helpful in collating its notes in this area and in summating the Privacy Commissioner’s views on this issue. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said that it does not oppose this proposal to override section 103 of the Privacy Act, but it notes that this section ...
Second Reading 11 Mar 2008
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... of the principle of natural justice when Government agencies operate automated information-matching systems. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner was deeply concerned about the balance there. But there is no doubt that the bill itself does make efforts to minimise ...
Policing Bill
First Reading 19 Feb 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... important contributions made by independent bodies such as the Law Commission, the Human Rights Commission, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. They helped to ensure that the proposals in the bill are consistent with the basic rights and protections guaranteed by ...
Electoral Finance Bill
In Committee 6 Dec 2007
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... the figures are based on the costs of the Police Complaints Authority—which is the wrong name for it, anyway—and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, which comprise around 15 and 30 fulltime-equivalents respectively. So what was contained in the certificate was rubbish ...
Social Security (Entitlement Cards) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 15 May 2007
KATRINA SHANKS ... the use of highly functional technology on Government-issued cards generally, and that the matter be referred to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Strong views were voiced at the select committee that a more general inquiry, particularly around the use of microchips,...
In Committee 10 May 2007
HEATHER ROY ... such as microchip technologies, and that the matter should be referred to and commented on thoroughly by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. That is absolutely the right process to follow. The Privacy Commissioner should have been involved from the outset and ...
KATRINA SHANKS ... the use of highly functional technology on Government-issued cards generally, and that the matter be referred to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Strong views were voiced in the select committee that a more general inquiry, particularly around the use of microchips, ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 8 May 2007
HEATHER ROY ... to the financial review of the Privacy Commissioner. I have absolutely no complaints at all, I have to say, about the Office of the Privacy Commissioner; I think it is a very well-respected office. The Privacy Commissioner is very well respected the length and breadth of ...
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... to feature consistently on the list of entities that were highly complained about, in terms of raw numbers, to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. So we asked her about that. She said that in fact the numbers that had been reported showed a decline on previous years, ...
Sports Anti-Doping Bill
In Committee 25 Oct 2006
SANDRA GOUDIE ... a call and explain his view. They also discussed it with Drug Free Sport New Zealand, the New Zealand Police, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, and the Ministry of Justice. Based on these discussions, the view of the officials remained that it would be undesirable ...
Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Information Matching) Amendment Bill
In Committee 27 Jun 2006
PAULA BENNETT ... and through the select committee. We have not had responses to those questions, at all. In fact, when we met with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner about this matter and asked its officials questions around the issue, they could not answer the question as to how that ...
JUDY TURNER ... is passed from one organisation to another, we need to be extremely careful. I am very glad that we have an Office of the Privacy Commissioner that offers the kind of advice it does to make sure that we keep ourselves in check in that regard. United Future ...
Second Reading 13 Jun 2006
GEORGINA BEYER ... for the advice we received from the Housing New Zealand Corporation, the Ministry of Social Development, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Also, I would like to thank all my colleagues on the select committee for their effort in dispatching this bill back to ...
SUE BRADFORD ... grown from 20 such formal arrangements in 1995-96 to around 72 in 2004-05, according to the 2005 annual report of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. All these programmes mean that the State is intruding more and more into the lives of ordinary New Zealanders at a level ...
JUDY TURNER ... of the Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Information Matching) Amendment Bill. The opening statement by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in its report on this bill to the Social Services Committee accurately describes the bill’s need and purpose: “This bill ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 16 May 2006
KEITH LOCKE I want to address the role of the Privacy Commissioner. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner does extremely important work, and in its latest report it refers to this being a dangerous time for privacy: “The ...