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Content type: Examples
A New Zealand Subway restaurant suspended an employee for sending texts and social media requests on Facebook, Instagram, among others to a female customer online after she gave the restaurant her personal information as part of a contact tracing effort. The restaurant has since adopted a new digital contact tracing system that keeps details private unless requested by government officials for contact tracing purposes.
https://www.newsweek.com/restaurant-worker-suspended-after-using-customers…
Content type: News & Analysis
This post was written by William Marks, a former volunteer at Privacy International.
The right to privacy is central to the protection of human dignity, and supports and reinforces other rights, such as the right to freedom of expression and association. Privacy International, supported by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, recently submitted a joint stakeholder report to the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding New Zealand’s protection of the right to…
Content type: Advocacy
This Universal Periodic Review stakeholder report is a submission by Privacy International presented to raise concerns regarding the situation of the violation of the right to privacy in New Zealand as part of the 32nd session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group.