Embedding Privacy as a Core Consideration in Facility Management's Wave of Change | E whakaū ana i te matatapu hei whakairo matua i te ngaru whakapanoni o te ao whakahaere hanga whaitake
| Thursday, September 26, 2024 |
| 2:30 PM - 3:05 PM |
| Kawau Room Plenary (Level 3) |
Overview
Michael Webster
Details
Michael Webster is New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner. He will outline the importance of privacy and data protection and the key factors facility managers need to consider.
Privacy needs to be a core consideration when you’re collecting people’s personal information. In facilities, there’s attendance and registration information being stored, databases being managed, IDs being checked, and company information collected, to name a few. There are likely cameras recording, and increasingly, you’ll need to consider technological advances like biometrics and AI.
Data is such an essential element of work now that the management and consideration of privacy concerns need to be as critical as health and safety protocols or robust financial reporting.
In the work you all do, how you treat personal information and how you embed privacy-protective practices through your planning processes will inevitably be a factor in whether you keep your customer’s trust and confidence. Just like riding the cusp of a wave, you need to balance the many tasks on your to-do lists, and privacy should not be overlooked. I’d challenge you to consider whether you can afford not to make privacy a core consideration of your work when the cost of not doing so can be so high.
Speaker
Michael Webster
New Zealand Privacy Commissioner
Embedding Privacy as a Core Consideration in Facility Management's Wave of Change
Biography
Michael took up the role of Privacy Commissioner on 5 July 2022. Prior to this appointment he worked in the Cabinet Office, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for 14 years, and held the position of Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council from March 2014. Commissioner
Webster’s career has focused on enabling and driving good governance, the promotion of democratic rights and values, the development and application of codes of conduct and behaviour, and working to ensure compliance with both statutory provisions and constitutional conventions.
Since taking up the role, Commissioner Webster has focused on ensuring the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is equipped to deliver on its vision of making privacy a core focus for agencies, in order to protect the privacy of individuals, enable agencies to achieve their own objectives, and safeguard a free and democratic society.
That has seen a strengthening of the compliance and enforcement function, a focus on delivering on the Office’s regulatory stewardship responsibilities, and advocating for a regulatory framework and Privacy Act that’s fit for purpose in the digital age.
