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Multiple investigations into the alleged misuse of census and immunisation data for election purposes are still under way after it was revealed yesterday that StatsNZ and the Ministry of Health failed to put adequate safeguards in place.
The Police, the Privacy Commissioner and the Serious Fraud Office are now investigating claims that Te Pati Maori misused personal data collected in 2023.
The chief executive of the Waipareira Trust and president of Te Pati Maori, John Tamihere, has countered that no evidence has been found that data was misused.
Gehan Gunasekara is an Associate Law Professor at Auckland University specialising in privacy law and co founded the Privacy Foundation and he joins Kathryn to talk about the improvements he says need to be made in our attitude towards privacy.
