The Privacy Act 2020 New Zealand’s revised legislation In December 2020, NZ’s new Privacy Act will come into force, introducing mandatory data breach reporting, extraterritoriality, restrictions

The Privacy Commission has created a table to help compare the changes between the existing Privacy Act and the New Privacy Act

Parliament passes modernised Privacy Act Privacy Commissioner John Edwards welcomed Parliament passing the Privacy Act 2020 with unanimous support.The new Act replaces the 27-year-old Privacy

The Privacy Bill passed the Committee of the Whole House stage in Parliament on 3 June, with the House sitting under urgency. A Supplementary Order Paper (SOP)

On 17 March the Justice Minister (Andrew Little) tabled a Supplementary Order Paper for the Privacy Bill, which states that the new Privacy Bill will come into force on 1 November