Law Commission flags privacy changes
Law Commission president Sir Geoffrey Palmer, SC, has flagged proposed changes to privacy rules which could mean more sharing of private information between government agencies.
In a speech to the Privacy Forum in Wellington today, Sir Geoffrey spoke about the commission's privacy project, a review of the Privacy Act 1993, and the pressures expanding technology can place on privacy. It was complex subject, and he offered a chocolate fish to anyone who could define privacy.
Sir Geoffrey criticised how some agencies interpreted the Act. Its legal provisions did not do what many people said they did. "Seldom in the history of New Zealand statute law had so much baseless misunderstanding been perpetuated by so many," he said.
