This Group looks at privacy issues affecting tamariki and children including:

• Privacy in online learning and education
• Online privacy and security
• Targeting for commercial or other gain (through apps, games, toys, social media, political campaigns, etc.)
• The collection, use and disclosure of tamariki and children’s health information (including mental health information)
• Collection of large data sets by government and non-government agencies
• The potential surveillance/tracking of children and other privacy harms

The Working Group focuses on keeping up to date with privacy impacts of current and evolving topics, policy, issues and information technology relating to health -related services and the health sector. There is significant change across the health sector. Privacy, security, and information management continue to be central to effective, modern models for delivery of services, and to ensure people’s rights are respected. The Group explores and engages on privacy issues arising from the changes, providing thought leadership.
We consider a range of matters, including:

• Data and Digital initiatives across the health system

• AI, the medical internet of things and connected devices

• Vulnerable consumer privacy issues, including the management of health information of Medically Dependent Consumers (people who are reliant on electricity for medical support) held by electricity retailers

To monitor and comment on significant legislation and regulations affecting privacy. The Privacy Bill was the prime focus for the working group in 2019.

This group focuses on the privacy issues in an employment context. From the increased use of biometrics to manage shift work to whether what is said on a work device is private, this group looks at the topical issues. There is a LinkedIn page which we encourage you to join if you are interested in this working group.

The purpose of this group is to advocate for a digital economy that respects individual and collective privacy interests. The group is particularly interested in:

• Promoting ways to responsibly use personal data in the digital economy
• Providing commentary on technology and policy that has implications for the collection and use of personal data
• Understanding how cybersecurity can help to preserve privacy interests

The list of topics which we would like to work on in 2024:

• The increasing use of biometric information in the public and private sector
• Consumer and Product Data Bill
• Artificial Intelligence and privacy

The Security working group looks at Privacy issues through a Security lens. Newly formed in 2024, some issues we will be exploring include:

• Insider Threat
• appropriate employee browsing
• Privacy implications of BYOD devices
• Other Security implications relating to Privacy

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected both the nature of surveillance and public attitudes towards it. Surveillance includes traditional types such as by intelligence or law enforcement agencies but is also increasingly prevalent through techniques such as sentiment analysis and social listening within both the public and private sectors.

In 2022, the group will:

• Identify and highlight new forms of surveillance that pose a risk to reasonable expectations of privacy
• Continue to hold government agencies, including intelligence agencies, accountable for their surveillance practices
• Examine issues connected with collective privacy interests including surveillance of groups of individuals