The Commission welcomed the PHRAE’s expansion from predictive risk modelling to data and information-sharing practices in the social sector more generally. The Commission also welcomed the inclusion of data and privacy issues as items of focus for the Government’s work programme on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This constitutes a significant achievement for the Commission’s advocacy efforts in this area, which have been ongoing since 2014 and, in 2016, resulted in the Committee on the Rights of the Child issuing specific recommendations to the New Zealand Government on the PHRAE and related matters. Review of Search and Surveillance Act The Commission engaged with the Law Commission in developing its report, Review of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012. This resulted in the Law Commission recommending the inclusion of two new principles in the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 that directly adopt the Commission’s suggestions and that the Law Commission report attributes to the Commission. The principles are: “that powers under the Act should be exercised in a manner that minimises the impact on children and vulnerable members of the community”, and “that powers under the Act should be exercised in a manner that protects any privilege held by, or available to, any individual”. Harmful digital communications The Commission co-chaired a working group with the Human Rights Foundation to address concerns regarding harmful digital communications and rights and responsibilities when engaging with security and intelligence services. The working group consists of Police, Security Intelligence Service, Office of Film and Literature Classification, Customs, MBIE, and civil society representatives. In May, the working group completed and published two resources to address civil society concerns and supported the resource publication with a joint community forum. Right to housing The UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing invited the Commission to provide feedback on her 2018 draft thematic report on human-rightsbased housing strategies. The Commission’s input was included in her final report. The Commission’s submission on how states can design and implement effective human-rights-based housing strategies and Mr Rutherford’s article on the human right to adequate housing were published on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) webpage. The Chief Commissioner’s article also featured in the Public Service Association’s book Progressive thinking: ten perspectives on housing. The Chief Commissioner had meetings with senior ANZ staff to inform the development of the bank’s internal strategy on housing and, in particular, 24 Human Rights Commission

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