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Privacy Commissioner's Analysis of the Data and Statistics Bill

New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties made this Official Information request to Privacy Commissioner

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From: New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties

Tēnā koutou Office of the Privacy Commissioner,

This is a request under the Official Information Act.

The New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties is seeking information to help us understand issues relating to the Data and Statistics Bill. To help with this we request the following information from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner:

1. all analysis the Office performed on the Bill and any unpublished drafts of the Bill;

2. correspondence (whether by email or other means) with Statistics New Zealand, and any other agency, on the Bill;

3. The minutes, and any handwritten notes produced by the Commissioner or any of their officials, of any meetings with Statistics New Zealand concerning either the Data and Statistics Bill, and the policy development work that led to the Bill;

4. analysis of whether Statistics New Zealand should have produced a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) on the Data and Statistics Bill or the policy proposals;

5. correspondence (whether by email or other means) with Statistics New Zealand about their decision not to produce a PIA of the Bill; 

6. all analysis and/or consideration of whether the Office would make a written submission to the Select Committee on the bill; 

7. any drafts of a Select Committee submission which may have been started; and

8. minutes, or any handwritten notes of the meeting at which decided not to submit on the Bill. If the decision was taken by an individual rather than at a meeting, then that person’s record of the decision.

Under section 16 of the OIA, our preferred means of receiving the information is as an attachment to your response to this request. Under section 16 we would also prefer to receive the information in its original file format (presumably Microsoft Word), or a PDF of any emails. If only a PDF of the information has been retained, our second preference would be to receive it as a text-searchable PDF. We also prefer to receive information without it being watermarked with ‘released under the OIA’ (or similar) over the text. The OIA does not require departments to place such markings over information they disclose. The OIA only provides limited reasons for these preferences not to be complied with.

If you need to clarify anything about this request, please reply to the email address from which you received this request.

Ngā mihi,

Steven Ensslen

Secretary

New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties

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Kia ora Steven

 

You can now review the Commissioner’s submission on the Data and
Statistics Bill on the [1]Parliament website. The Governance and
Administration Committee accepted her submission today.

 

Please review the submission and advise whether you still wish to proceed
with the OIA request below.

 

Ngā mihi nui

 

Justin (Dong Jun) Kim

([2]he/him)

Legal Adviser | Kaitohutohu Taha Ture

 

Office of the Privacy Commissioner  Te Mana Mātāpono Matatapu
PO Box 10094, The Terrace, Wellington 6143

Level 11, Grant Thornton Building, 215 Lambton Quay, Wellington

T     +64 4 474 7590        DDI     +64 4 474 7597

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-----Original Message-----
From: New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties
<[FOI #18943 email]>
Sent: Monday, 21 March 2022 5:04 pm
To: OIA <[Privacy Commissioner request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Privacy Commissioner's Analysis of
the Data and Statistics Bill

 

Tēnā koutou Office of the Privacy Commissioner,

 

This is a request under the Official Information Act.

 

The New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties is seeking information to help
us understand issues relating to the Data and Statistics Bill. To help
with this we request the following information from the Office of the
Privacy Commissioner:

 

1. all analysis the Office performed on the Bill and any unpublished
drafts of the Bill;

 

2. correspondence (whether by email or other means) with Statistics New
Zealand, and any other agency, on the Bill;

 

3. The minutes, and any handwritten notes produced by the Commissioner or
any of their officials, of any meetings with Statistics New Zealand
concerning either the Data and Statistics Bill, and the policy development
work that led to the Bill;

 

4. analysis of whether Statistics New Zealand should have produced a
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) on the Data and Statistics Bill or the
policy proposals;

 

5. correspondence (whether by email or other means) with Statistics New
Zealand about their decision not to produce a PIA of the Bill; 

 

6. all analysis and/or consideration of whether the Office would make a
written submission to the Select Committee on the bill; 

 

7. any drafts of a Select Committee submission which may have been
started; and

 

8. minutes, or any handwritten notes of the meeting at which decided not
to submit on the Bill. If the decision was taken by an individual rather
than at a meeting, then that person’s record of the decision.

 

Under section 16 of the OIA, our preferred means of receiving the
information is as an attachment to your response to this request. Under
section 16 we would also prefer to receive the information in its original
file format (presumably Microsoft Word), or a PDF of any emails. If only a
PDF of the information has been retained, our second preference would be
to receive it as a text-searchable PDF. We also prefer to receive
information without it being watermarked with ‘released under the OIA’ (or
similar) over the text. The OIA does not require departments to place such
markings over information they disclose. The OIA only provides limited
reasons for these preferences not to be complied with.

 

If you need to clarify anything about this request, please reply to the
email address from which you received this request.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Steven Ensslen


Secretary


New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties

 

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From: New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties

Tēnā koutou Office of the Privacy Commissioner,

Thank you for your email of 6 April 2022 letting the Council know that the Commissioner has now made a submission to the Governance and Administration Select Committee on the Data and Statistics Bill.

In answer to your question about whether we still wish to proceed with our OIA request to the Commissioner, the answer is ‘yes’. The submission is not the information sought in our request, and we expect to receive a full response to our request as soon as reasonably practicable and by 20 April 2022 at the latest.

Ngā mihi,

Steven Ensslen
Secretary
NZ Council for Civil Liberties

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Tēnā koe

 

I attach the Acting Commissioner’s response to your request. We will be in
touch again next week.

 

Ngā mihi nui

 

Justin (Dong Jun) Kim

([1]he/him)

Legal Adviser | Kaitohutohu Taha Ture

 

Office of the Privacy Commissioner  Te Mana Mātāpono Matatapu
PO Box 10094, The Terrace, Wellington 6143

Level 11, Grant Thornton Building, 215 Lambton Quay, Wellington

T     +64 4 474 7590        DDI     +64 4 474 7597

Add me on [2]LinkedIn

privacy.org.nz

 

My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obliged
to reply outside of your normal work schedule.

 

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Privacy is about protecting personal information, yours and others. To
find out how, and to stay informed, [4]subscribe to our newsletter
or follow us online. [5]Description: Description: Description: Small
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question? [7]AskUs

 

Caution: If you have received this message in error please notify the
sender immediately and delete this message along with any attachments. 
Please treat the contents of this message as private and confidential.
Thank you.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: New Zealand Council for Civil Liberties
<[FOI #18943 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2022 11:23 am
To: OIA <[Privacy Commissioner request email]>
Subject: RE: Official Information request - Privacy Commissioner's
Analysis of the Data and Statistics Bill

 

Tēnā koutou Office of the Privacy Commissioner,

 

Thank you for your email of 6 April 2022 letting the Council know that the
Commissioner has now made a submission to the Governance and
Administration Select Committee on the Data and Statistics Bill.

 

In answer to your question about whether we still wish to proceed with our
OIA request to the Commissioner, the answer is ‘yes’. The submission is
not the information sought in our request, and we expect to receive a full
response to our request as soon as reasonably practicable and by 20 April
2022 at the latest.

 

Ngā mihi,

 

Steven Ensslen

Secretary

NZ Council for Civil Liberties

 

-----Original Message-----

 

Kia ora Steven

 

 

 

You can now review the Commissioner’s submission on the Data and 
Statistics Bill on the [1]Parliament website. The Governance and 
Administration Committee accepted her submission today.

 

 

 

Please review the submission and advise whether you still wish to proceed 
with the OIA request below.

 

 

 

Ngā mihi nui

 

 

 

Justin (Dong Jun) Kim

 

([2]he/him)

 

Legal Adviser | Kaitohutohu Taha Ture

 

 

 

Office of the Privacy Commissioner  Te Mana Mātāpono Matatapu  PO
Box 10094, The Terrace, Wellington 6143

 

Level 11, Grant Thornton Building, 215 Lambton Quay, Wellington

 

T     +64 4 474 7590        DDI     +64 4 474 7597

 

Add me on [3]LinkedIn

 

privacy.org.nz

 

 

 

My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel
obliged  to reply outside of your normal work schedule.

 

 

 

[4][IMG]

 

Privacy is about protecting personal information, yours and others. To 
find out how, and to stay informed, [5]subscribe to our newsletter 
or follow us online. [6]Description: Description: Description: Small 
facebook icon [7]Description: twitter-bird-blue-on-whiteHave a privacy 
question? [8]AskUs

 

 

 

Caution: If you have received this message in error please notify the 
sender immediately and delete this message along with any attachments. 
Please treat the contents of this message as private and confidential.

Thank you.

 

 

 

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[8][FOI #18943 email]

 

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on
the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:

[9]https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers

 

If you find this service useful as an Official Information officer, please
ask your web manager to link to us from your organisation's OIA or LGOIMA
page.

 

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Please find attached the documents in scope, and not withheld, which are relevant to your Official Information Act request as indicated in our letter to you dated 20 April 2022. The redactions contained in the documents are ddi’s and mobile numbers withheld under s9(2)(a) of the OIA 1982. There are also a couple of words on page 142 which have been redacted as they are out of scope.

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