New Zealand’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) examines the process of updating the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework. APEC’s goal is to update the framework “in time to mark the 10th anniversary of the framework’s adoption in 2005,” the OPC’s Blair Stewart writes in a blog post. Stewart notes APEC’s Electronic Commerce Steering Group (ECSG) has “endorsed an ECSG Data Privacy Subgroup plan to concentrate on updating the framework in six priority areas.” Among those priorities are introducing the concept of privacy management programs and “offering guidance by outlining the factors to be considered in balancing trade considerations when restricting cross-border transfers for reasons of privacy.” Meanwhile, Stuff.co.nz reports a register to examine the level of foreign property ownership in New Zealand could breach the Privacy Act, and "extensive discussions" with the OPC would be needed.
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