NZ Greens call for inquiry, fresh laws on databases
The Green Party has called for Government to mount an inquiry into the privacy concerns raised by Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff about the oversight of public and private databases that contain information on New Zealand citizens, Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke says.
Mr Locke was responding to a speech last week by the Privacy Commissioner in which she queried whether sufficient protections exist under New Zealand law regarding local databases situated overseas - or where local data is sent, or accessed from, offshore.
