Dear Mr Harris

Thank you for your email below in which you request the following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA):

1. How long personally identifying information on passengers en route to New Zealand is retained by Customs;
2. What precautions Customs uses to protect this personally identifying information from loss, unauthorised access or modification, or other misuse;
3. What other agencies it is shared with or disclosed to, and the legal authority for such sharing or disclosure;
4. Any privacy policy which applies to the collection, storage, use and disclosure of this information.

Customs will respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable and within 20 working days from the date after which your request was received.

Please feel free to contact Customs if you have any questions or concerns relating to your request.

Kind regards
Procedures and Support team
NZ Customs Service

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harris [mailto:[FOI #3479 email]]
Sent: Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:02
To: OIA
Subject: Official Information Act request - Privacy of NZ arrivals data

Dear New Zealand Customs Service,

Section 21 of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 requires craft en route to New Zealand to provide specified information to Customs. The information required is specified in sections 12C and 12D of the Customs and Excise Regulations 1996, and includes personally identifying information on passengers, including their name, date of birth, gender, nationality, travel document information as well as information on their movements. I would like to request the following information under the OIA:

* How long personally identifying information on passengers en route to New Zealand is retained by Customs;
* what precautions Customs uses to protect this personally identifying information from loss, unauthorised access or modification, or other misuse;
* what other agencies it is shared with or disclosed to, and the legal authority for such sharing or disclosure;
* any privacy policy which applies to the collection, storage, use and disclosure of this information.

I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the fyi.org.nz website.

With regards to s12 of the OIA, I am an NZ citizen and in NZ.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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Dear Mr Harris

Please find attached a response to your request.

Kind regards
Chief Customs Officer
Procedures and Support

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Harris [mailto:[FOI #3479 email]]
Sent: Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:02
To: OIA <[email address]>
Subject: Official Information Act request - Privacy of NZ arrivals data

Dear New Zealand Customs Service,

Section 21 of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 requires craft en route to New Zealand to provide specified information to Customs. The information required is specified in sections 12C and 12D of the Customs and Excise Regulations 1996, and includes personally identifying information on passengers, including their name, date of birth, gender, nationality, travel document information as well as information on their movements. I would like to request the following information under the OIA:

* How long personally identifying information on passengers en route to New Zealand is retained by Customs;
* what precautions Customs uses to protect this personally identifying information from loss, unauthorised access or modification, or other misuse;
* what other agencies it is shared with or disclosed to, and the legal authority for such sharing or disclosure;
* any privacy policy which applies to the collection, storage, use and disclosure of this information.

I would prefer to receive an electronic response. Queries about this request will be automatically forwarded to me by the fyi.org.nz website.

With regards to s12 of the OIA, I am an NZ citizen and in NZ.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Harris

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This is an OIA request done via the FYI website.

Please do not send progress updates as PDF files.

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
https://fyi.org.nz/help/officers

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

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The information contained in this email message is intended only for the addressee and is not necessarily the official view or communication of the New Zealand Customs Service.

This email may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by mistake, please:
(a) reply promptly to that effect, and remove this email and the reply from your system; and
(b) do not act on this email in any other way.

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