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Privacy and security

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and legal commentators stress the need to balance innovation and privacy, while Māori stakeholders have raised concerns about bias, cultural impacts and data sovereignty — concerns the Code requires agencies to consider in proportionality assessments.

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Jan 27, 2026
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Which New Zealand government agencies use biometric verification today and what systems are in place for law enforcement and border control?

has recently put a -code">Biometric Processing Privacy Code into force that creates binding rules for any organisation — public or private — that uses automated biometric systems, and it explicitly ad...

Jan 7, 2026

How does end-to-end encryption affect the ability of forensic tools to recover message contents from endpoints?

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) fundamentally shifts the forensic problem from intercepting network traffic to controlling endpoints and keys: without access to a device’s decryption keys, forensic tools...