Source: Privacy Commissioner
The Privacy Commissioner is frustrated by the New Zealand Polices recent serious privacy breach. The breach involved the inadvertent disclosure of 147 firearm owners email addresses by Te Tari Preke, the polices new firearms safety authority on Wednesday, 26 July, 2023. This is frustrating, given the significant known risk of email address errors and the opportunity the new authority had to design in system guardrails, says Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster. This is the fourth breach of firearm owners personal information by the police in under four years. We found out about this privacy breach via the media. We had to ask the police to notify us, said the Commissioner. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner was formally notified by the police at 10. 28pm on July 27 of the serious breach.