Privacy Act 1993
E802725
The Privacy Act 1993 was New Zealand’s principal data protection law that regulated the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by public and private sector agencies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Privacy Act 1993 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9478644 — 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 1993 Context triple: [Human Rights Review Tribunal of New Zealand, appliesStatute, Privacy Act 1993]
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A.
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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B.
Privacy Act of 1974
The Privacy Act of 1974 is a U.S. federal law that governs how federal agencies collect, maintain, use, and disclose individuals’ personal information, granting citizens rights to access and correct records about themselves.
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C.
Data Protection Act 1998
The Data Protection Act 1998 was a UK law that governed how personal data was collected, stored, and used, implementing EU data protection standards before being largely replaced by later legislation such as the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
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D.
Data Protection Act 1984
The Data Protection Act 1984 was the United Kingdom’s first comprehensive data protection law, establishing rules for the handling of personal data and creating a regulatory framework for privacy oversight.
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E.
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.
- 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 1993 Target entity description: The Privacy Act 1993 was New Zealand’s principal data protection law that regulated the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by public and private sector agencies.
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A.
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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B.
Privacy Act of 1974
The Privacy Act of 1974 is a U.S. federal law that governs how federal agencies collect, maintain, use, and disclose individuals’ personal information, granting citizens rights to access and correct records about themselves.
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C.
Data Protection Act 1998
The Data Protection Act 1998 was a UK law that governed how personal data was collected, stored, and used, implementing EU data protection standards before being largely replaced by later legislation such as the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
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D.
Data Protection Act 1984
The Data Protection Act 1984 was the United Kingdom’s first comprehensive data protection law, establishing rules for the handling of personal data and creating a regulatory framework for privacy oversight.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Zealand statute
ⓘ
data protection law ⓘ |
| aimedToBalance |
individual privacy interests
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public interest in information use and disclosure ⓘ |
| allowed |
access by individuals to personal information held about them
ⓘ
correction of personal information by individuals ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
private sector agencies
ⓘ
public sector agencies ⓘ |
| commencedInYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| contained |
exceptions for law enforcement
ⓘ
exceptions for national security ⓘ exceptions for statistical and research purposes ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| createdOffice | Office of the Privacy Commissioner ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | Privacy Commissioner (New Zealand) ⓘ |
| established | information privacy principles ⓘ |
| hadEffectUntil | 2020 ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
to promote and protect individual privacy
ⓘ
to regulate handling of personal information ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | international data protection principles ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | New Zealand ⓘ |
| languageOfDocument | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| legislature | New Zealand Parliament ⓘ |
| numberOfPrinciples | 12 ⓘ |
| partOf | New Zealand privacy law framework ⓘ |
| providedFor |
complaints to the Privacy Commissioner
ⓘ
investigation of alleged privacy breaches ⓘ |
| region | Oceania ⓘ |
| regulated |
information privacy practices of government agencies
ⓘ
information privacy practices of private organisations ⓘ |
| regulates |
collection of personal information
ⓘ
disclosure of personal information ⓘ use of personal information ⓘ |
| repealedBy | Privacy Act 2020 ⓘ |
| royalAssent | 1993 ⓘ |
| scope |
private sector
ⓘ
public sector ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Privacy Act 1993 ⓘ |
| status | repealed ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
information privacy
ⓘ
personal information ⓘ |
| typeOfInformationRegulated | personal information about identifiable individuals ⓘ |
| wasPrincipalDataProtectionLawOf | New Zealand ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1993 ⓘ |
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 1993 Description of subject: The Privacy Act 1993 was New Zealand’s principal data protection law that regulated the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by public and private sector agencies.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.