Reports into the decision to withold disaggregate Crash Analysis System data
Richard Law made this Official Information request to New Zealand Transport Agency
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From: Richard Law
Dear New Zealand Transport Agency,
I would like to see any written reports over the period January 2015 - May 2016 that relate to the decision to stop providing public downloads of the data behind the Crash Analysis System. This data was for some time available as a series of CSV files that could be downloaded at https://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/crash... until some point in 2015, at which points updates were missed and then all existing data was removed.
The requested documents should include, if relevant:
- Any Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)
- Advice taken from the Privacy Officer and/or the Chief Information Officer
- Advice from the Privacy Commission
- Other internal reviews and reports related to the decision
This request is being made because I have been told via email that the change to suppress publicly-available disaggregate information was made because "[The NZTA] have recently revised [their] privacy and confidentiality standards, and the crash information did not meet those new standards". I have also been told explicitly that a PIA was being conducted in February 2016, but have not been able to find this.
Yours faithfully,
Richard Law
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Dear Richard
Please find attached a letter from Tracy Mellor, Manager Analysis and
Insights, in response to your Official Information request of 21 May 2016.
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Very happy with the response. It's great to finally have the rationale for the change clearly stated in public, and I think they've realised that in the future some period of warning should be given before changes are made to what may be considered operational datasets.
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