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M B

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This person's 35 Official Information requests

ANPR Surveillance (3) - Public's access to data within AT's indefinite database of license plate locations
Request to Auckland Transport by M B. Annotated by M B on October 16, 2024.
Successful.
UPDATE on the initial context provided in this request: Auckland Transport (AT) has recently reversed their previous stance that searching their dat...
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for "anonymised" loan-level data
Response by Reserve Bank of New Zealand to M B on September 03, 2024.
Refused.
Dear Mason   Apologies for the delay responding to you.   We have given further consideration to your request and our decision remains that se...
Capabilities of AT to Identify Individuals from a License Plate Number
Response by Auckland Transport to M B on July 31, 2024.
Successful.
Kia ora Mason,   Thanks for your email.   The only team that has access is our Parking team.   Thanks, Varsha LGOIMA Business Partner...
ANPR Surveillance (5) - Auckland Transport's 2024 updated number of cameras and database size
Response by Auckland Transport to M B on July 24, 2024.
Successful.
Kia ora Mason,   I’ve attached the official information you asked for   On 3 July 2024 you asked for updated figures regarding the number of r...
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for NHI numbers
Response by Ministry of Health to M B on July 23, 2024.
Successful.
Kia ora Mason,   Please find attached the response to your request for official information.   Ngā mihi       OIA Services Team Manatū...
ANPR Surveillance - Audits of Auckland Transport's database + search warrant clarification
Response by Auckland Transport to M B on July 15, 2024.
Successful.
Kia ora Mason    I’ve attached the official information you asked for On 3 July 2024 you asked for ANPR data requests.   I have attached a re...
Corrections & 'Buddi' contractor for electronic monitoring - Faulty Equipment - Human rights - Access to Justice
Request to Department of Corrections by M B. Annotated by Ariana on July 12, 2024.
Successful.
I am currently wearing a buddi bracelet sentenced for five months I suffer from severe pulmonary hypertension right side of my heart is bigger then...
Police use of Cellebrite to search locked Cell Phones - Policies, Audits, & Stats.
Response by New Zealand Police to M B on November 06, 2023.
Partially successful.
Tēnā koe Mason   Please find attached the response relating to your Official Information Act request, received by Police on 9 October 2023.  ...
ANPR Audit results - Auror & vGRID - What does "audit" actually mean?
Response by New Zealand Police to M B on August 21, 2023.
Successful.
Tēnā koe                                   Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act request, received by New Zealand Polic...
Police searches of Auckland Transport's ANPR database
Response by New Zealand Police to M B on August 08, 2023.
Partially successful.
  Dear Mason,   Please refer to the response letter attached for your OIA request made.   Thank you.   Kind regards   Elsa Wu (she/he...
ANPR Surveillance (4) - Disclosure of AT's indefinite database of license plate locations to the Police
Response by Auckland Transport to M B on August 01, 2023.
Successful.
Good morning M   Apologies for this inconvenience, I have now downloaded theses documents and have attached them in this email.     Alvin Ku...
ANPR Audit results - Auror & vGRID - Surveillance Device Warrants / Privacy Act / Production Orders (re-request 2)
Response by New Zealand Police to M B on July 21, 2023.
Partially successful.
    Tēnā koe Mason                                   Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act request, received by New...
ANPR Tracking - Auror - Surveillance Device Warrants
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on June 10, 2023.
Partially successful.
For all those following this OIA, please note that the Police now hold this information in light of an Audit conducted in the last 8 months. A follow u...
Historic use of Passive / Memory GPS tracking devices (Location Loggers)
Response by New Zealand Police to M B on June 06, 2023.
Successful.
Tēnā koe Mason                                  Please find attached the response to your Official Information Act request, received by New Zealand...
Police Manual Chapter - Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) - Update?
Response by New Zealand Police to M B on May 03, 2023.
Information not held.
Kia ora Mason   Further to my email of 1 May 2023, the workgroup that prepared your response have asked me to forward the following revised explan...
(Refined Request) ANPR alert's lawfulness? - Operation HIKING Documents (Northland COVID Women)
Response by New Zealand Police to M B on May 02, 2023.
Successful.
FAYLONA, Charina (Chi) would like to recall the message, "IR-01-23-10510 Information request response". ===============================================...
ANPR Tracking - was Auror and vGRID (VIBE) suppressed from criminal disclosure?
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on April 27, 2023.
Refused.
Complaint made. This request would take a matter of minutes given that the Police have just conducted a review of every Auror & vGRID search (https://w...
ANPR Tracking - Auror - Surveillance conducted prior to contract signed with Auror
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on April 25, 2023.
Refused.
Complaint made to the ombudsman. The Police's assertions are difficult to reconcile with their public release of the current Auror contract. Why would...
NZ Customs ANPR Tracking - Auror
Request to New Zealand Customs Service by M B. Annotated by M B on April 25, 2023.
Refused.
Complaint made to the ombudsman.
ANPR alert's lawfulness? - Operation HIKING Documents (Northland COVID Women)
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on March 29, 2023.
Partially successful.
This request has now been answered: https://fyi.org.nz/request/20978-refined-request-anpr-alert-s-lawfulness-operation-hiking-documents-northland-covid...
ANPR Surveillance (2) - Searches of AT's indefinite database of license plates
Request to Auckland Transport by M B. Annotated by M B on March 23, 2023.
Successful.
Auckland transport has provided a response to this request on another request of mine. Please find here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/21604/response/8207...
NZ Customs ANPR use and Third-Party Camera Access
Request to New Zealand Customs Service by M B. Annotated by M B on March 20, 2023.
Successful.
For those following this request and my research, please note that this response acknowledges NZ Custom's use of Auror - hosts of an ANPR database....
ANPR - Auror - New Zealand Venture Investment Fund 2013-2015
Response by Stuart Nash to M B on December 13, 2022.
Successful.
Dear Mason,   Please find attached our response to your OIA request.   Yours sincerely,   Rebecca (Bex) Janes Head of Legal m: +64 21 98 1...
ANPR tracking - memorandum of understanding with the Police for disclosure of license plate hits
Response by Auckland Transport to M B on November 25, 2022.
Successful.
Kia ora Mason   I’ve attached the official information you asked for On 11/11/2022 you asked for information relating to ANPR data.   I’ve at...
ANPR tracking - vGRID live / 'real time alerts' - new function?
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by Manraj on November 22, 2022.
Refused.
Request made in light of your refusal - https://fyi.org.nz/request/21191-anpr-tracking-vgrid-live-real-time-alerts-new-function/new
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This person's 21 annotations

ANPR Surveillance (3) - Public's access to data within AT's indefinite database of license plate locations
Request to Auckland Transport by M B. Annotated by M B on October 16, 2024.
Successful.
UPDATE on the initial context provided in this request: Auckland Transport (AT) has recently reversed their previous stance that searching their dat...
ANPR Cameras
Request to Hamilton City Council by Joshua Rogers. Annotated by M B on July 05, 2024.
Successful.
This is a huge safety concern. If ANPR data held by a public body is not personal information within the Privacy Act, it is merely official information...
ANPR Tracking - Auror - Surveillance Device Warrants
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on June 10, 2023.
Partially successful.
For all those following this OIA, please note that the Police now hold this information in light of an Audit conducted in the last 8 months. A follow u...
Auror - legality of
Request to New Zealand Police by J A Harris. Annotated by M B on June 03, 2023.
Refused.
As a side note, Police confirmed to me in a recent email that these Auror 2022 Guidelines (mostly the same as their 2020 issue) are no longer in use....
Presence of Static ANPR camera(s) in Ellerslie Village
Request to New Zealand Police by J Deyell. Annotated by M B on June 03, 2023.
Refused.
I believe this is wrong. Auckland Transported provided me a list of their ANPR camera locations and which databases they are feeding into during my r...
ANPR Tracking - was Auror and vGRID (VIBE) suppressed from criminal disclosure?
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on April 27, 2023.
Refused.
Complaint made. This request would take a matter of minutes given that the Police have just conducted a review of every Auror & vGRID search (https://w...
(Refined Request) ANPR alert's lawfulness? - Operation HIKING Documents (Northland COVID Women)
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on April 25, 2023.
Successful.
Police have acknowledged this follow up request via a direct email.
ANPR Tracking - Auror - Surveillance conducted prior to contract signed with Auror
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on April 25, 2023.
Refused.
Complaint made to the ombudsman. The Police's assertions are difficult to reconcile with their public release of the current Auror contract. Why would...
NZ Customs ANPR Tracking - Auror
Request to New Zealand Customs Service by M B. Annotated by M B on April 25, 2023.
Refused.
Complaint made to the ombudsman.
ANPR alert's lawfulness? - Operation HIKING Documents (Northland COVID Women)
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on March 29, 2023.
Partially successful.
This request has now been answered: https://fyi.org.nz/request/20978-refined-request-anpr-alert-s-lawfulness-operation-hiking-documents-northland-covid...
ANPR Surveillance (3) - Public's access to data within AT's indefinite database of license plate locations
Request to Auckland Transport by M B. Annotated by M B on March 26, 2023.
Successful.
The Auckland Transport ANPR database currently has 622 million hits as of January 2023: OIA response CAS-677040-C1R9J9 (https://www.documentcloud.org/d...
ANPR Surveillance (2) - Searches of AT's indefinite database of license plates
Request to Auckland Transport by M B. Annotated by M B on March 23, 2023.
Successful.
Auckland transport has provided a response to this request on another request of mine. Please find here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/21604/response/8207...
Auror retail crime reporting system
Request to New Zealand Police by Cody C. Annotated by M B on March 21, 2023.
Partially successful.
I note that the Auror contract provided here and in response to several other FYI requests is dated 13 August 2018, However, in a recent response it...
NZ Customs ANPR use and Third-Party Camera Access
Request to New Zealand Customs Service by M B. Annotated by M B on March 20, 2023.
Successful.
For those following this request and my research, please note that this response acknowledges NZ Custom's use of Auror - hosts of an ANPR database....
ANPR Tracking - Auror - Surveillance Device Warrants
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on November 15, 2022.
Partially successful.
If anyone wishes to file a follow up request, please leave a comment with the link.
How often is new identity information created for security or law-enforcement purposes?
Request to Department of Internal Affairs by Alex Harris. Annotated by M B on October 20, 2022.
Refused.
Did you ever get anything substantive from this by chance?
ANPR Tracking - new 12 month acceptable period of data retention, up from 2 days.
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on October 17, 2022.
Partially successful.
I wonder whether the truth escapes this response by virtue of word play? It may be worth revisiting in several months to see if the ANPR "frontline saf...
NZ Customs ANPR use and Third-Party Camera Access
Request to New Zealand Customs Service by M B. Annotated by M B on September 23, 2022.
Successful.
Complaint made to the ombudsman, particularly in light of the Police's recent ANPR manual proactive release.
ANPR Tracking - Auror - Surveillance Device Warrants
Request to Ministry of Justice by M B. Annotated by M B on September 22, 2022.
Information not held.
Same request filed with the Police, see: https://fyi.org.nz/request/20598-anpr-tracking-auror-surveillance-device-warrants
ANPR Tracking - Auror - Surveillance Device Warrants
Request to New Zealand Police by M B. Annotated by M B on September 20, 2022.
Partially successful.
Figures for the number of Surveillance Device Warrants (and other warrants) issued and rejected are published in the annual reports available here:...
To provide evidence of masks reducing respiratory illness
Request to Ministry of Health by Will Maynard. Annotated by M B on July 31, 2022.
Reported for administrator attention.
Any response privately?
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