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Oct 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Amy Ryburn |Elizabeth Rose
Click here to watch the videoThere are lots of reasons why contracting parties may enter into a preliminary, limited-scope agreement that contemplates a more detailed agreement at a later date to cover the substance of a project or transaction. In this webinar Amy Ryburn (partner) and Elizabeth Rose (senior associate) covered:What are the various types of preliminary agreements and what makes them special or different from any other type of contract?
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Alex Chapman |Allan Yeoman |Amy Ryburn |Keri Johansson
A Cyber Security Bill 2024 (Cyber Bill) has been tabled in Australia's Federal Parliament. The Cyber Bill sets out a legislative framework to help address broad, whole-of-economy cyber security issues and to enable the Australian Government to respond to new and emerging cyber security threats. It is part of a broader package of Australian cyber security reforms, including in relation to its existing security requirements on Government intelligence and critical infrastructure.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Alex Chapman |Keri Johansson |Allan Yeoman |Amy Ryburn
For those who missed it in the blur of the school holidays, a Statutes Amendment Bill was introduced to Parliament (Statutes Amendment Bill) at the end of September. The Statutes Amendment Bill is an omnibus Bill that includes changes to over 40 different Acts, including the Privacy Act 2020 (Privacy Act). The amendments proposed to the Privacy Act are relatively minor but provide some helpful insights or clarification for those needing to interpret the Privacy Act.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Allan Yeoman |Amy Ryburn |Keri Johansson |Alex Chapman |Pearlyn Tan
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has released its Poupou Matatapu online toolkit. The toolkit is intended to provide agencies with an overview of the OPC's expectations as to what good privacy practice looks like and how agencies can work towards achieving that. Poupou Matatapu is comprehensive and we consider that it is likely to be an important touchstone for businesses and other agencies when they are designing or reviewing their own privacy practices, or engaging with the OPC.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Amy Ryburn |Renee Stiles |Damien Steel-Baker |Alex Chapman |Andy Dysart |Elizabeth Rose
Late last week, the Office of the Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology proactively released a paper submitted to Cabinet addressing New Zealand's approach to working with artificial intelligence (AI). The Cabinet paper notes that New Zealand has been uncharacteristically slow to embrace AI and identifies confidence and capability as key factors inhibiting the rate of domestic AI adoption, particularly compared to peer countries.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Amy Ryburn |Renee Stiles |Damien Steel-Baker |Alex Chapman |Andy Dysart |Elizabeth Rose
In recent decades the New Zealand government has made openness and transparency one of its key policy objectives regarding its collection, use, and sharing of data. Since 2011, a framework of principle-led policies has been developed that build on these core principles, including policies aimed at ensuring that government agencies can responsibly harness the incalculable benefits of "big data" and algorithmic analysis, while preserving public trust in government processes and systems.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Allan Yeoman |Amy Ryburn |Keri Johansson |Alex Chapman
This year is shaping up to be a big year for privacy compliance and data protection. Over the last few months, we've seen a draft Biometrics code, a Privacy Amendment Bill, and draft Customer and Product Data Bill in Parliament. Following on from this, last Friday the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) issued draft guidance to help agencies "do privacy well". The guidance is titled Poupou Matatapu (Poupou meaning posts or pillars and Matatapu meaning privacy).
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Allan Yeoman |Amy Ryburn |Renee Stiles |Catherine Miller |Keri Johansson |Alex Chapman | +2 more
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has recently released a draft Biometric Processing Privacy Code (Code) for public consultation. The consultation period closes on 8 May 2024. The Code proposes legal obligations on agencies that carry out automated processing of biometric information. With biometric processing rapidly becoming common place, this is an important opportunity for agencies to engage with this legislative change. What is biometrics?
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Andy Dysart |Amy Ryburn |Bridie McKinnon
The extent to which a party's discretions under a contract are fettered by standards of reasonableness has long been a source of debate. A New Zealand Court of Appeal judgment last year, together with a couple of subsequent judgments, have suggested that New Zealand law on this issue may be evolving. In this article, we take a look at the recent judgments and what they may mean in the future for contracting parties. The Woolley appeal - what was the case about?
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Amy Ryburn |Damien Steel-Baker
Click here to watch the videoCollaborative contracts are a category of contracts under the Government Procurement Rules. There are a broad range of these contracts available for public sector agencies to use. While they are often referred to as "all of government" contracts, AoG contracts are in fact only one category of collaborative contracts currently in place which public sector entities can use.
