A Privacy Commission Update

21 May 2026

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Changes to Information Privacy Principle 3A 

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Your privacy is important to us at Tamatea Medical Centre. Recently, the Privacy Commission enacted changes to agency obligations when collecting personal information indirectly. Changes to Information Privacy Principle 3A requires that we inform you about information we may receive about you from a third-party, unless one of the listed exceptions applies.



You can read more about what this change means on the Health Hawke's Bay website here.

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