Search results for legislation as code

  • Legal and policy requirements for accessible websites

    Found in Standards & guidance / Design and UX / Accessibility / Legal and policy requirements for accessible websites

    There are several legal and policy requirements for core government organisations to make their websites accessible. Public service and non-public service departments need to respond to a mix of legislation and Cabinet directives, as well as international obligations that are imposed on the government as a whole.

  • Security and privacy assurance

    Found in Standards & guidance / Governance / Managing online channels / Security and privacy for websites / Designing for security and privacy / Security and privacy assurance

    You need to establish a quality assurance framework based on the severity of the consequences of a breach in security or privacy.

  • Gaining buy-in for a privacy programme

    Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Manage a privacy programme / Gaining buy-in for a privacy programme

    A successful privacy programme needs to have buy-in from decision-makers and stakeholders.

  • All of Government Innovation Showcase

    Found in Showcase

    Better for Business and the Office of the GCDO (Government Chief Digital Officer) presented the All-of-Government (AoG) innovation showcase on Tuesday 3 December 2019 at Te Papa.

  • Open sourcing our complaints code

    Found in Blog / Published 18 September 2015 / By John Edwards

    It might sound strange but complaints are the lifeblood of our office. We receive them, vet them and investigate them. And because we are the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, people need to have absolute confidence in the security of our complaints process.

    The Privacy Act gives you the right to complain to us if someone breaches your privacy. It’s an important right, both for you personally and for our society as a whole.

    We get 700 to 800 complaints a year about alleged breaches of privac…

  • Policy, legislation and service innovation

    Found in Blog / Published 29 November 2017 / By Nadia Webster

    TL;DRIn the spirit of sharing, the Service Integration team at the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) brought together a group of people from different government agencies to make connections across policy, regulation, legislation and service innovation.

    We shared what we're all working on, explored where our work is mutually supportive and identified some joint opportunities to better understand the possibilities of new approaches to legislation, rules and policy. This included the pote…

  • Primary legislation for sharing information

    Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Information sharing / Information sharing agreements / Legal authority to share information / What legal authority to use / Primary legislation for sharing information

    Primary legislation may authorise or enable agencies to collect, use, and disclose personal information for specified purposes.

  • Common Web Platform: making code sharing better

    Found in Blog / Published 27 March 2015 / By Sarah St John

    One of the benefits of the Common Web Platform (CWP) is the ability for agencies to share or open source modules they develop. Ideally this will mean less duplication of effort across agencies − and reduced cost across government − as agencies can leverage investments made by other agencies.

    CWP has been live for 18 months now and some code has been shared, but we’d like to see it happen more. An example of an open-sourced CWP module is the Tenon module created by the Govt.nz team. Tenon is a s…

  • Free code: Event Tracking for Google Analytics

    Found in Blog / Published 23 October 2012 / By Nathan Wall

    Do you use Google Analytics (GA) for tracking visitors to your website? Yes? Then read on. If you don’t currently use GA on your website then this post isn’t going to be relevant for you. But I would then ask, you are using something to track your site’s users aren’t you?

    Note: Throughout this post I just talk about GA, but this script can be used with Urchin too. Also, be warned that this post is aimed at web developers with a technical background.

    What is event tracking?Event tracking is a f…

  • DPUP's relationship to other laws and guidance

    Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) / Use DPUP in your work / Resources for working with DPUP — a toolkit / DPUP's relationship to other laws and guidance

    The Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) provides good practice advice for the collection and use of people's information. In some areas, and for good reasons, that advice goes beyond the law.

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