Election 2017 - Party Policies - Information and Communications Technology - Privacy
27th May 17, 9:25am
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Privacy
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- Scrutinise closely any information sharing between different state databases, and oppose those that are unwarranted.
- Improve the public's access to official information and ensure that there are effective reviews in place for those who do not receive the requested information or consider that information held about them is incorrect.
- Support amending the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 to specifically include a right to privacy.
- Review controls on the sale of private information, and the exchange of information between government agencies, to ensure consistency with the aims of the Privacy Act.
- Ensure that personal information that is held by public sector agencies concerning New Zealand citizens is the responsibility of New Zealand organisations.
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- Support open standards and open software development across government IT projects.
- Open standards will be thoroughly documented and made publicly available at no cost, thereby allowing the exchange of information between government, public and commercial sectors to be free of any costs associated with proprietary software.
- Adopt a whole of government approach to software to achieve open access to government software, evaluating whole of government solutions, rather than a silo approach across departments. There will be a requirement to evaluate publicly available solutions for business requirements.
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- Support a review to ensure the right to privacy is included in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.
- Promote the right of New Zealanders to have full access to their personal information held on government databases to ensure it is correct and require that information be held in New Zealand.
- Standardise digital privacy controls, records retention and security issues.
- Address issues of cyber-citizenship including cyber-safety and preventing cyber-crime.
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