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Asia-Pacific Dashboard Digest | First “Right to Know Day” will launch with new info request tool Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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New Zealand will launch its first “Right to Know Day” on 12 May, as the country hopes to boost citizens’ awareness of their legal right to access the personal information agencies possess about them, Voxy reports. Privacy Commissioner John Edwards is celebrating the day by releasing AboutMe, an online tool making it easier for people to make those inquiries by creating an email template containing the details agencies require for information requests. "Roughly 60 percent of the complaints we receive each year have to do with access to personal information. We hope to reduce that number by making people aware of this component of the Privacy Act and making it easier for them to assert their right to see their own information,” said Edwards.
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