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Privacy Week 2025 is a series of free webinars promoting privacy awareness. Our 2025 theme is “Privacy on Purpose”, which invites speakers to present on the need for businesses, organisations, and individuals to be purposeful with their privacy. Doing privacy well is a business advantage, not just a tick-box exercise.
Section 21c of the Privacy Act 2020 requires the Commissioner to take account of cultural perspectives on privacy – a somewhat unusual feature in the global context of data privacy regulation. In this webinar we discuss how this requirement might be more effectively leveraged to create a privacy regime that is more fit-for-purpose for Māori, and indeed for all New Zealanders. We discuss recent research on Māori data privacy, the potential for a long overdue Māori data code, and use case examples where Māori privacy considerations are put into practice to create better outcomes.- Local Govt privacy breaches (and things to avoid!)
– Interplay between the Privacy Act and other legislation e.g. LGOIMA
– Tips for protecting the privacy of individuals
– Common issues faced by elected members
– How Council officers can do privacy wellRebecca Hawkins, member of the Children’s Working Group of the Privacy Foundation NZ
Friday 16 May
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9am – 10am |
Hear from John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner |
Join former Privacy Commissioner John Edwards, live from the UK, as he talks about his experience as their Information Commissioner. He’ll share his observations on, and comparisons between, UK and New Zealand privacy approaches – including those created by the different legislative frameworks. He’ll also answer any questions people have or you can send those in ahead of time to privacyweek@privacy.org.nz Register for this webinar. |
John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner |
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12pm – 1pm |
Privacy Officers Role: Getting Ahead of Risks Before They Become Breaches |
BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE Join Marcin and Laura for a practical session focused on strengthening your organisation’s approach to privacy, rooted in a thorough understanding of risks and applying targeted mitigation strategies. We’ll explore what purposeful privacy management looks like – from data-mapping and understanding the personal information you hold and use, to identifying risks, and responding effectively when things go wrong. Register for this webinar. |
Dr Marcin Betkier, AI governance and privacy expert Laura Rodriguez, Privacy Professional and Senior Compliance Officer |
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1.30pm – 2.30pm |
Where is the line of creepy? |
BEGINNER Your data is collected in many places and by many different agencies. What are you happy with them doing with your data? your children’s data? your community’s data? When is it that things can start to feel a bit creepy? The Privacy Act describes what we can do, legally, with personal information. But just because we can do something – should we do it? With the lived wisdom of people from different communities, we will explore the human side of personal data collection and use. How do our worldviews shape how we see our data? What harm can occur from legal data use with good intentions? Where do our individual lines of creepy lie? And what can we do when faced with the question: “should we”? Register for this webinar. |
The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation – with Friends |
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3pm – 4pm |
Answering your questions about Māori data sovereignty |
Join Chris Cormack and Ernestynne Walsh as they address a number of questions they received from their webinar in Privacy Week 2024 “Myth: Māori data sovereignty is too hard.” Register for this webinar. |
Ernestynne Walsh, Māori data service lead at Nicholson Consulting Chris Cormack, Kaihuawaere Matihiko at Catalyst IT |
About Privacy Week
During May each year we run Privacy Week, a series of free webinars that promote privacy awareness regardless of how much you already know. Contact us at privacyweek@privacy.org.nz
Privacy Week is held in conjunction with Privacy Awareness Week, an initiative by the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) network. Find out more about APPA and Privacy Awareness Week.
These presentations are brought to you for Privacy Week, an initiative supported by the Privacy Commissioner to promote the discussion of privacy. Each presentation is independent of the Privacy Commissioner and the views expressed are personal to the speakers. As the regulator, the Privacy Commissioner may have different views to those expressed in this presentation.