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Privacy Act 2020

Information privacy principles and codes of practice - Information privacy principles

28: IPPs 2, 3, and 4(b) do not apply to personal information collected by intelligence and security agencies

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“Intelligence agencies can collect personal info without telling you”

If you are an intelligence and security agency in New Zealand, you don’t have to follow some of the usual rules about personal information. These rules are called Information Privacy Principles (IPPs) 2, 3, and 4(b). When these agencies collect personal information about people, they don’t need to tell the person they’re collecting it, they don’t need to get it directly from the person, and they don’t need to make sure the person knows about it. This is different from how other organisations have to handle personal information.

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Information privacy principles

28IPPs 2, 3, and 4(b) do not apply to personal information collected by intelligence and security agencies

  1. IPPs 2, 3, and 4(b) do not apply to personal information collected by an intelligence and security agency.

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