The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand examined a case involving a doctor accusing her former employee of illicitly recording her conversations. Dr. Deborah Waxman accused Dr. Jitendra Pal and Dr. Promila Pal of illegally recording her, and using the conversations against her after she was fired for improperly downloading patient information from another company. The Human Rights Review Tribunal looked at her case, and determined she was informed the conversations were recorded, and the five Privacy Act principles Waxman said had been breached were not violated. “Principle 2 says that where an agency collects personal information, the information must be collected directly from the individual concerned. The evidence established the information collected came directly from Dr. Waxman,” the commissioner’s office said in a blog post.
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