Information Commissioner s Office
ICO and Office of the Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand, sign Memorandum of Understanding
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
The MOU builds on the existing strong relationship between ICO and OPC, recognising their shared common mission to uphold people’s information rights, while supporting digital innovation and economic development.
Cooperation between international data protection authorities is essential in our times of global data-driven business and this MOU builds on the strong collaboration the two authorities already enjoy as active members of the Global Privacy Assembly, which the ICO currently chairs. The MOU comes soon after New Zealand’s new privacy law has come into force, and at a time of increasing trade between the UK and New Zealand.
Any scheme which uses digital certificates to prove a person’s coronavirus status would only be a success if the public is able to “trust” the way their data is used, the Information Commissioner will say on Wednesday.
The Government has said it is “considering” using the official NHS app as a digital route to allow holidaymakers to show they have been vaccinated and unlock overseas travel.
Speaking at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Data Protection Practitioners’ annual conference, Elizabeth Denham is expected to say such a system can only work if the public is able to trust that their personal data was being used responsibly and their privacy protected.
Any scheme which uses digital certificates to prove a person’s coronavirus status would only be a success if the public is able to “trust” the way their data is used, the Information Commissioner will say on Wednesday.
The Government has said it is “considering” using the official NHS app as a digital route to allow holidaymakers to show they have been vaccinated and unlock overseas travel.
Speaking at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Data Protection Practitioners’ annual conference, Elizabeth Denham is expected to say such a system can only work if the public is able to trust that their personal data was being used responsibly and their privacy protected.