Privacy Resources

 
 

Office of the Privacy Commissioner (NZ) is your one stop shop for everything you need to know about Privacy in NZ. Some of the most useful resources are linked to below and International Resources are at the bottom of this page.

Privacy Act NZ Overview (Presentation)

PRIVACY ACT (13 PRIVACY PRINCIPLES)

Privacy is Precious Campaign (2020)

PRIVACY ACT INFORMATION SHEETS (2020 CHANGES)

PRIV-O-MATIC (Privacy Statement Generator) free

eLearning free

NOTIFY US (Privacy Breach Online Reporting)

ABOUT ME (REQUEST MY INFO TOOL)

OVERSEAS RESOURCES

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a stricter set of Privacy Regulations than the NZ Privacy Act and it applies to NZ organisations if you have European customers.

Disclosure Outside NZ (Principle 12)

OTHER PRIVACY RESOURCES

Don’t forget to check your Privacy and Security Settings for the Apps, Devices and Accounts you use. eg check Google Account settings https://myaccount.google.com

Duck Duck Go browser (no tracking)

Keep It Real Online NZ (Security and Privacy settings for apps)

Privacy Badger https://privacybadger.org 

Surveillance Self Defence (How To’s) https://ssd.eff.org/module-categories/tool-guides 


Panopticlick (Tracking check) https://panopticlick.eff.org

Apple Privacy controls

APPLE TRACKING CONTROLS

ANDROID PRIVACY SETTINGS (WIRED SUGGESTED 12 UPDATES)