Computer ‘watchdog’ appointed
PA Wellington An Ombudsman and former Secretary of - Foreign Affairs, Mr G. R. taking, has been appointed as the Wanganui Computer Centre Privacy Commissioner. Announcing this yesterday, the Minister of State Services (Mr Gordon) said his powers would be to provide any individual .who requested it with a copy of information recorded about him on the computer system. , He would have the power to investigate any complaint made by a person concerning the information recorded about him on the computer system and to make any other inquiries into matters relating to the operation of the centre which he feels to be necessary’. Mr Gordon said bir Thaddeus McCarthy had been appointed chairman
of the Computer Centre Policy Committee. Others appointed are Mr R. A. McGechan, deputy chairman, of Wellington, Professor I. D. Campbell, of Lower Hutt, Dr D. G. McLauchlan, of Taupo, and a “technical member,” Professor Graham Tata, professor of computer science at Massey University. Other members of (he policy committee would be the permanent heads of the State Services Commission, the Justice, Police and Transport Departments.
The functions of the policy committee would be to determine the policy of the computer centre and the computer system relating to the privacy and the protection of the rights of the individual. It would also be able to allow the release of information for research or statistical purposes only.
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