Karen Ngan, Partner at Simpson Grierson

Karen is a partner in Simpson Grierson's commercial group. She co–heads the firm's information and communications technology (ICT) group and the firm's data protection and privacy group. Karen is one of Simpson Grierson's key data protection and privacy lawyers. She provides expert guidance to local and multi-national clients on a wide spectrum of privacy issues, including practices relating to the collection and use of personal information, database and information management, outsourcing arrangements (often involving data transfers offshore), and the sharing and monetisation of personal information through online services and emerging technologies.

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Data Privacy Insights

New Zealand Privacy Act and Digital Trust in the 21st Century

May 2, 2017

This article is based on a presentation made during the Data Privacy Asia 2016 conference held on 9-11 November 2016. Author Karen Ngan is a commercial law partner at Simpson Grierson (New Zealand) . She co–heads the firm's information and communications technology group and its data protection and privacy group. In this article she discusses some of the challenges with dealing with 21st century privacy issues under a Privacy Act that is over 20 years old. She also covers some of the measures or practices that have been taken to address some of these challenges. Read More

Data Protection Resources

New Zealand: Building Digital Trust in the 21st Century Under 20th Century Law

November 10, 2016

New Zealand's Privacy Act is over 23 years old. While we wait for a new Privacy Act, there are interim amendments, other legislation and initiatives, and a Privacy Commissioner who is taking a stronger line with enforcement and proactively addressing privacy issues through education and encouraging compliance. Read More