Experts Insight on the recent news regarding New Zealand’s Privacy Laws which delivers six major changes which are:
1. Reporting obligation for new privacy breach;
2. Criminal offence to access someone’s private information without entitlement (fines up to $10,000);
3. Compliance notice to businesses or organizations to comply with Privacy Act 2020;
4. Providing access to individuals whoes information is held by bsuinesses or organizations;
5. Disclosing private information of individuals sent overseas;
6. Overseas businesses or organizations doing business in New Zealand also have to comply with Privacy Act 2020 even if no physical presence.
Experts Comments
As the trend continues, it will service businesses to get ahead of the curve and offer their customers better security and privacy.
New Zealand's new personal privacy laws went into effect on 30 November 2020. These new laws affect any organization doing business in New Zealand, much as GPDR regulations affect business operations in the EU. From a personal privacy perspective, these laws are a win for the citizens in general and are part of a trend towards increased personal privacy in a significant part of the world. While US privacy laws lag at the Federal level, state laws are following the trend of improving the.....Read More
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