20 Jun 2011

NZ Post survey criticised for breaching privacy

From Nine To Noon, 9:29 am on 20 June 2011

Professor Paul Roth at Otago University who teaches privacy, information and data protection law and co-wrote reports into the incident for the Privacy Commissioner. The personal data NZ Post collected in a big 2009 public survey that was subsequently on-sold to marketing companies has been slammed as a breach of privacy principles; Marie Shroff; Privacy Commissioner; and John Tulloch, NZ Post Communications Manager.