25 Jul 2019

State care abuse victims' privacy rights violated

From Morning Report, 7:40 am on 25 July 2019

It's emerged confidential personal records of people who were in state care as children were publicly available until very recently.

These files included names, referrals for psychiatric evaluations, prescriptions and caregivers' details and had been transferred to Archives New Zealand in 1989.

The Privacy Commissioner is John Edwards. He talks to Susie Ferguson.