New Zealand's Office of the Privacy Commissioner developed a set of model contract clauses for global data transfers. The clauses were created to help organizations comply with privacy principle 12 within the Privacy Act 2020, which requires organizations to ensure that any data sent outside of New Zealand has the proper safeguards in place. The OPC said in the announcement the clauses can be inserted into contracts with overseas data recipients and are similar to standard contractual clauses used under the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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