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Asia-Pacific Dashboard Digest | Shroff Discusses Credit Agency Reporting Related reading: Singapore's PDPC announces latest enforcement actions

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Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff has acknowledged that external oversight put in place to ensure sensitive credit history information held by privately owned agencies will be the responsibility of the credit reporting agencies themselves, The New Zealand Herald reports, although the overseer will report to the privacy commissioner. Beginning in October, changes to the Credit Reporting Privacy Code will for the first time allow credit reporters to begin collecting "positive" credit data as well as such other information as driver's licence numbers. In terms of the new oversight, Shroff said, "It's a middle ground between doing it internally and having no external scrutiny and a full-blown external audit."
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