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- July 4, 2025
Privacy Week – how biometrics technology is shaping children’s digital lives
Last but very far from least in our Privacy Week series was a fascinating presentation by Annette Mills and Rebecca…
- July 4, 2025
Two more Privacy Week sessions – AI Governance and Privacy Officers
Marcin Betkier, one of our committee members and a past Foundation Chair, is always a wonderful contributor to Privacy Week…
- July 4, 2025
Privacy Week: Balancing privacy and protection – section 66C of the Oranga
This is a summary of a 2025 Privacy Week presentation given by Jesse Porter, Senior Privacy Advisor at Oranga Tamariki.…
- July 4, 2025
Privacy Week: Māori data privacy – time to take it seriously
One of the first sessions in Privacy Week 2025 was a presentation by Tahu Kukutai and the Foundation’s own Jesse…
- June 11, 2025
Facial recognition tech not a green light for surveillance
Gehan Gunasekara, the convenor of the Foundation's surveillance working group, has provided a couple of comments recently about the OPC's…
- April 30, 2025
Submission on Land Transport Management (Time of Use Charging) Bill
The Surveillance Working Group has made a submission for the Foundation on the Land Transport Management (Time of Use Charging)…
- January 31, 2025
In safe hands? The protection of privacy in consumer genomics
In the recent blogpost Andelka Phillips and Jan Charbonneau raise awareness about the threat to privacy posed by the data…
- December 20, 2024
Privacy Foundation submission on proposed information sharing between IR and MBIE
Inland Revenue and two business groups in the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment are proposing to sign up to…
- December 20, 2024
Protecting against employee browsing
Both the Privacy Foundation and Gehan Gunasekara were quoted in a recent Newsroom article about an incident where a Department…
- October 10, 2024
Submission on the potential Consumer Data Right for the electricity sector
Privacy Foundation has made a submission to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s consultation on the potential Consumer Data…
- October 10, 2024
Submission on Proposed Open Banking Regulations
Privacy Foundation has made a submission to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's consultation on the proposals for open…
- October 6, 2024
Genomic discrimination and New Zealand insurance
Genomic discrimination and New Zealand insurance – or, how what you don’t know can hurt you By Susanne, Hauora Health…
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