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Mobile phone tracking by Data Ventures

Paul Jones made this Official Information request to Privacy Commissioner

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From: Paul Jones

Dear Privacy Commissioner,

With reference to the following article about Data Ventures working with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for producing statistics on the publics movement during Covid lockdown by tracking mobile phone data.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/...

Under the Official Information Act please provide the documents and communications with Data Ventures discussing;

1) The method of how the mobile phone location data is collected,
2) How the collected data is anonymised.

Yours faithfully,

Paul Jones

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A bit of googling suggests Data Ventures is being provided the data from Spark and Vodafone as;

"We get device counts, hourly and to suburb level. We can't see any identifiable features - where they've come from, where they're going to, you just see a count at a point in time."

Source: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zeal...

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From: Susan Sales

Good morning Paul

Thank you for your Official Information Act (OIA) request of 27 August 2021, to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, regarding mobile phone tracking data.

Your OIA request has been transferred to Stats NZ to prepare a response. It will be handled by the Office of the Government Statistician and Chief Executive. We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 30 September 2021, being 20 working days after the day your request was received by Stats NZ.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Jones <[FOI #16538 email]>
Sent: Friday, 27 August 2021 8:23 pm
To: OIA <[Privacy Commissioner request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Mobile phone tracking by Data Ventures

Dear Privacy Commissioner,

With reference to the following article about Data Ventures working with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for producing statistics on the publics movement during Covid lockdown by tracking mobile phone data.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/...

Under the Official Information Act please provide the documents and communications with Data Ventures discussing;

1) The method of how the mobile phone location data is collected,
2) How the collected data is anonymised.

Yours faithfully,

Paul Jones

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Kia ora Paul

 

Please find attached Stats NZ’s response to your request for information
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Susan Sales

Advisor, Office Of The Government Statistician & Chief Executive
|Kaitohutohu Matua - Tari O Te Kaitatauranga Matua Me Te Pouārahi Matua

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