Monday, 17 March 2025
Description
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Latest Developments in Privacy and Data Protection: New Laws and Code of Practice
- A proposed new code of practice to regulate the collection and use of biometric information
- The Privacy Commissioner’s guidance on the use of Artificial Intelligence
- The launch of Poupou Matatapu “Doing privacy well”
- Introduction of a new Information Privacy Principle 3A to broaden the notification requirements when indirectly collecting personal information
- Tweaks to the Privacy Act to reinforce a principal agency’s liability for its service providers
- Australia’s new Privacy Act: What does this mean for New Zealanders?
Presented by Suzy McMillan, Senior Associate and Leading Commercial and Technology Lawyer, specialising in privacy and data protection, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Chair
Professor Tana Pistorius, Head of Department Commercial Law, University of Auckland; Author, “The Regulation of Big Data: Data Governance Beyond Data Protection”
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the latest updates to New Zealand’s privacy framework, including the new code of practice, biometric data rules, and Privacy Act amendments
- Explore the implications of AI guidance, cross-border data issues, and Australia’s privacy reforms for New Zealand organisations
Presenters
Professor Tana Pistorius, Head of Department Commercial Law, University of AucklandTana is a professor of Commercial Law and the Head of the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland Business School (UABS). Tana is the Programme Director of the Master of Information Governance Programme of the UABS and a Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Law and Business. Tana is an affiliated member of the Z-inspection® initiative, a holistic process for evaluating the trustworthiness of AI-based technologies at different stages of the AI lifecycle. She has a keen interest in the management of intellectual property, legal aspects of frontier technologies, the data economy, and information technology law. Her recent contributions to the literature include New Zealand Business Law Quarterly article “The Regulation of Big Data: Data Governance Beyond Data Protection” and Policy Quarterly article “Automated Traffic Congestion Charging Systems: Privacy Considerations for New Zealand.”
Suzy McMillan, Senior Associate and Leading Commercial and Technology Lawyer, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Suzy is a commercial and technology lawyer with significant experience working in both New Zealand and the UK. She has particular expertise in the privacy and data protection space, regularly advising clients on their compliance obligations under data protection law, including managing and responding to data breaches, drafting privacy policies, data transfer agreements, privacy impact assessments, and direct marketing permissions, and helping clients navigate individual privacy requests and complaints. Suzy is also an Executive Council Member of Digital Identity New Zealand.
