Privacy Act 2020 guidelines : Contents
Privacy Act 2020 guidelines
Purpose
The purpose of the Privacy Act 2020 is to promote and protect individual privacy. It governs how we can collect, use, disclose, store and give access to personal information.
Personal information is information about identifiable, living individuals.
The information privacy principles
At the heart of the Privacy Act are thirteen information privacy principles. They cover:
- collection of personal information (IPPs 1-4)
- storage and security of personal information (IPP 5)
- requests for access to and correction of personal information (IPPs 6-7 and Part 4 of the Act)
- accuracy of personal information (IPP 8)
- retention of personal information (IPP 9)
- use and disclosure of personal information both within and outside New Zealand (IPPs 10-12) and
- using unique identifiers (IPP 13)
Other laws can override the information privacy principles in certain circumstances.
In addition, the Privacy Act sets out the following:
- the role and functions of the Privacy Commissioner and making complaints
- notifiable privacy breaches
- information sharing between agencies
This section of Map covers the following guidelines pertaining to the Privacy Act 2020:
- Defining personal information
- Requests for personal information
- Privacy Breach
- Collecting personal information
- Source of personal information
- Informing the client about collecting their personal information
- Storing and securing personal information
- Correcting personal information
- Checking personal information for accuracy
- Using personal information
- Complaints to the Privacy Commissioner
