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New data privacy rules are coming in NZ — businesses and other organisations will have to lift their games

  • Written by Anca C. Yallop, Senior Lecturer in Strategy, Auckland University of Technology
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Most people these days are aware that what they share online is both valuable and vulnerable. Data privacy has become a major concern for consumers and corporations alike. The issue will come to a head when New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 comes into force on December 1.

The legislation replaces and updates the 1993 act. Its...

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