Periodic Update Report

Upon completion of this review I closed the Privacy Trust Mark scheme for all recipients due to low uptake and public awareness. The decision was made so that my Office can focus on a different approach to incentivising good privacy practice. [...] 2 The European Commission has a responsibility to monitor the functioning of the decision. [...] To assist the European Commission to undertake this monitoring, the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner as “the competent supervisory authority for the application of the legal data protection standards in New Zealand” under the European Commission’s decision, has undertaken periodically to submit update reports on developments in New Zealand data protection law.4 3 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of [...] 4 On 22 December 2015, the Privacy Commissioner submitted the first report that surveyed developments since the commencement of the Commission’s decision in 2013. [...] 5 The Office of the Privacy Commissioner does not, and does not purport to, speak for the New Zealand Government in this report. [...] Statutory amendments to New Zealand privacy law 6 The legal standards for the protection of personal data in New Zealand are primarily set out in the Privacy Act 2020 (Act) that came into force on 1 December 2020. [...] The 2 2013/65/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 19 December 2012 pursuant to Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adequate protection of personal data by New Zealand (notified under document C(2012) 9557). [...] 7 During the period of this report, one amendment was made to the Privacy Act. [...] You can review the summary details of each AISA in Schedule 2 to the Act. [...] The Privacy (Information Sharing Agreement Facilitating Services for Veterans and Other Claimants) Order 2024 5 Periodic Update Report on Developments in Data Protection Law in New Zealand (July – December 2020): Twelfth Report to the European Commission by the competent supervisory authority for the application of the Legal Data Protection Standards in New Zealand (Privacy Commissioner of N