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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Ecclestone <[FOI #34876 email]>
Sent: Monday, 8 June 2026 4:46 pm
To: OIA <[Privacy Commissioner request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Formal proceedings involving
social media companies

 

Dear Privacy Commissioner,

 

This is an Official Information Act request.

 

Please provide information on the three most recently completed formal
investigations, reviews, audits, supervisory actions, enforcement actions
or compliance proceedings involving the social media platforms Facebook,
Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, TikTok, WeChat, and/or Telegram which your
Office undertook and for which records are available. I am looking for
final reports, enforcement notices, decisions or recommendations on these
matters, if available, or other significant documents relating to the
investigations, excluding routine administrative communications such as
internal emails or scheduling correspondence.

 

Under section 16(2) of the OIA my preferences are (a) to receive a copy of
the whole document (b) that the information is disclosed in a text
searchable format, either Word or PDF, and (c) that it is sent to the
email address from which the Office of the Privacy Commissioner received
this request.

 

If the Office of the Privacy Commissioner decides that there is 'good
reason' under the OIA to withhold any of the information I am requesting,
then under section 19(a)(ii) of the OIA, I further request that it provide
me with the grounds in support of each instance of a withholding reason
cited for refusal. Guidance for agencies on how to meet their section
19(a)(ii) obligations is available from the Ombudsman at this location:

[5]https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/reso...

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Andrew Ecclestone

 

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