Dear Privacy Commissioner,

Kia ora,

Under the Official Information Act 1982, I request the following information from 1 January 2020 to the present concerning smart meter data, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), electricity-sector privacy issues, and related regulatory oversight.

Please provide:
1. Any internal briefings, legal analyses, position papers, guidance drafts, or correspondence concerning whether smart meter data may constitute personal information under the Privacy Act 2020.
2. Any records concerning collection, storage, retention, sharing, secondary use, disclosure, profiling, consent, or downstream analytics involving smart meter or AMI data.
3. Any interagency correspondence with MBIE, the Electricity Authority, Ministry of Health, Health NZ, ESR, or electricity retailers/distributors concerning privacy risks or safeguards associated with smart meter data.
4. Any complaint trend summaries, issue notes, enquiry logs, investigation records (in aggregated or anonymised form if necessary), or guidance development work relating to electricity retailers, metering providers, or smart meter data practices.
5. Any documents considering whether current privacy law and the Information Privacy Principles provide adequate safeguards for granular electricity-consumption data, inferred behavioural data, occupancy patterns, or related household analytics.
6. Any draft or final guidance documents prepared for the electricity sector on privacy compliance, consent, data minimisation, retention, access, correction, or disclosure in relation to metering data.

If any part of this request is more closely connected with another agency, please transfer that part under section 14.

Please provide the information electronically where possible.

Kind regards,
Spencer Jones