The Privacy Commission will ask the New Zealand Transport Agency why it has been collecting information on individual vehicles, The New Zealand Herald reports. The agency has been using automatic number plate recognition cameras to collect and store information on about 14,000 cars per day to monitor speeding near a construction site. The Privacy Commission was not made aware of the project and says it will follow up with the agency next week about the data collection. "You've got to have good reason to collect it in the first place and hold on to it," said Assistant Privacy Commissioner Katrine Evans.
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