{"id":10202,"date":"2024-06-10T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10202"},"modified":"2024-06-10T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T05:15:00","slug":"public-service-commission-to-conduct-inquiry-after-te-pati-maori-data-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10202","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Commission to conduct inquiry after Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori data allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Public Service Commission will conduct an independent inquiry after allegations Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori misused data during the 2023 election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A group of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/518622\/claims-of-census-data-misuse-by-manurewa-marae-probed-by-stats-nz\">former workers at Manurewa Marae<\/a>\u00a0said private data from census forms was photocopied and entered into a database they believe was then used to target voters in the T\u0101maki Makaurau electorate.<\/p>\n<p>Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp was the marae&#8217;s chief executive before stepping down after she narrowly won the T\u0101maki Makaurau seat.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has asked the Commission to investigate the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The review will be established by the powers provided by the Public Service Act 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be further announcements this week on the terms of reference, the timing for the inquiry, as well as the independent reviewer who will lead the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The police,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/518713\/stats-nz-appoints-doug-craig-to-investigate-census-data-misuse-claims\">Stats NZ<\/a>\u00a0and the Privacy Commissioner were also looking into the allegations.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8211; More to come&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Public Service Commission will conduct an independent inquiry after allegations Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori misused data during the 2023 election campaign. A group of\u00a0former workers at Manurewa Marae\u00a0said private data from census forms was photocopied and entered into a database they believe was then used to target voters in the T\u0101maki Makaurau electorate. Te [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10204,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions\/10204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}