Privacy Act 2020
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The Privacy Act 2020 is New Zealand’s primary data protection law that regulates the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information and provides individuals with rights to access and correct their data.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Privacy Act 2020 canonical | 5 |
| Privacy Act 2020 (New Zealand) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478645 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Privacy Act 2020 Context triple: [Human Rights Review Tribunal of New Zealand, appliesStatute, Privacy Act 2020]
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A.
Data Protection Act 2018
The Data Protection Act 2018 is the UK’s primary data protection law that implements and supplements the EU GDPR framework, setting rules for how personal data must be collected, used, and safeguarded.
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B.
Privacy Act (Canada)
The Privacy Act (Canada) is a federal law that governs how Canadian government institutions collect, use, and disclose personal information about individuals.
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C.
Personal Data Protection Act
The Personal Data Protection Act is Singapore’s primary data protection law that governs the collection, use, and disclosure of individuals’ personal data by organizations.
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D.
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act is a Canadian federal law that governs how private-sector organizations collect, use, and disclose personal information in the course of commercial activities.
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E.
Intelligence and Security Act 2017
The Intelligence and Security Act 2017 is New Zealand legislation that modernised and unified the legal framework governing the country’s intelligence agencies, their powers, oversight, and accountability.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Privacy Act 2020 Target entity description: The Privacy Act 2020 is New Zealand’s primary data protection law that regulates the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information and provides individuals with rights to access and correct their data.
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A.
Data Protection Act 2018
The Data Protection Act 2018 is the UK’s primary data protection law that implements and supplements the EU GDPR framework, setting rules for how personal data must be collected, used, and safeguarded.
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B.
Privacy Act (Canada)
The Privacy Act (Canada) is a federal law that governs how Canadian government institutions collect, use, and disclose personal information about individuals.
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C.
Personal Data Protection Act
The Personal Data Protection Act is Singapore’s primary data protection law that governs the collection, use, and disclosure of individuals’ personal data by organizations.
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D.
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act is a Canadian federal law that governs how private-sector organizations collect, use, and disclose personal information in the course of commercial activities.
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E.
Intelligence and Security Act 2017
The Intelligence and Security Act 2017 is New Zealand legislation that modernised and unified the legal framework governing the country’s intelligence agencies, their powers, oversight, and accountability.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Act of Parliament of New Zealand
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data protection law ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Office of the Privacy Commissioner (New Zealand) ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
ensure responsible handling of personal information
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promote individual privacy ⓘ protect personal information ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
New Zealand private sector agencies
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New Zealand public sector agencies ⓘ agencies in New Zealand ⓘ overseas agencies carrying on business in New Zealand ⓘ |
| contains |
information privacy principle 1
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information privacy principle 10 ⓘ information privacy principle 11 ⓘ information privacy principle 12 ⓘ information privacy principle 13 ⓘ information privacy principle 2 ⓘ information privacy principle 3 ⓘ information privacy principle 4 ⓘ information privacy principle 5 ⓘ information privacy principle 6 ⓘ information privacy principle 7 ⓘ information privacy principle 8 ⓘ information privacy principle 9 ⓘ |
| continues | information privacy principles from Privacy Act 1993 ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| empowers | Privacy Commissioner ⓘ |
| establishes | information privacy principles ⓘ |
| givesPower |
Privacy Commissioner to issue compliance notices
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Privacy Commissioner to make access directions ⓘ |
| grantsRight |
right to access personal information
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right to complain to the Privacy Commissioner ⓘ right to request correction of personal information ⓘ |
| includes |
cross-border disclosure rules
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offences for destroying personal information after a request ⓘ offences for misleading an agency to obtain personal information ⓘ |
| introduces | notifiable privacy breaches regime ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | New Zealand ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | in force ⓘ |
| provides | complaints and enforcement mechanisms ⓘ |
| regulates |
collection of personal information
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disclosure of personal information ⓘ security of personal information ⓘ storage of personal information ⓘ use of personal information ⓘ |
| replaces | Privacy Act 1993 ⓘ |
| requires |
notification of serious privacy breaches to affected individuals
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notification of serious privacy breaches to the Privacy Commissioner ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | personal information ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Privacy Act 2020 Description of subject: The Privacy Act 2020 is New Zealand’s primary data protection law that regulates the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information and provides individuals with rights to access and correct their data.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Privacy Act 2020