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Asia Pacific Dashboard Digest | Student union president awarded $18,000 after letter leaked Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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New Zealand's Human Rights Review Tribunal has awarded $18,000 to a student union president after her vice president leaked a private letter to the university's student magazine, nzherald.co.nz reports. "The letter, which reprimanded the president for failing to meet several of her role's key performance objectives, was published as part of a story about dysfunction with the union," the report states. The president filed a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, which, after an investigation, concluded that the vice president had breached the Privacy Act by leaking the letter. The vice president disagreed and a desirable settlement couldn't be reached, so the privacy commissioner referred the case to the Human Rights Review Tribunal. The tribunal ultimately awarded the compensation and ordered the vice president to receive Privacy Act training. 
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