When our safety cameras detect speeding, they capture images and information about the speeding vehicle.
Spot speed and mobile safety cameras collect a range of information about the potential offence including:
Average speed cameras take pictures of every vehicle that passes the camera. We only collect certain information. Images of non-speeding vehicles are kept on the camera and deleted after 3 days.
From speeding vehicles we collect:
From non-speeding vehicles we collect:
How average speed safety cameras work
To understand if a vehicle has entered an intersection after the light has turned red, we collect the following information from red light cameras:
* Photos and videos may or may not show people inside the vehicle.
We keep the information our safety cameras capture for up to 7 years, depending on its type.
We keep:
We only share safety camera data in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020, to process infringements or as otherwise required by law. Schedule 4 of the Privacy Act 2020 gives the authority to share certain personal information for the following purposes:
Information Privacy Principle 11 in section 22 of the Privacy Act 2020 details how personal information may otherwise be shared.
Schedule 4 of the Privacy Act 2020(external link)
Section 22 of the Privacy Act 2020(external link)
Our general privacy statement on information storage, security, and accessing and correcting your information also applies to the safety camera system.
General privacy statement
Our privacy impact assessment describes security controls for the information our safety cameras capture.
Privacy impact assessment [PDF, 2.2 MB]
Before cameras become fully operational and detect speeding, they’re tested for some time. Throughout the testing phase, we don’t issue infringement notices and we only store personal information for the time needed to test our processes. We delete any data we’ve captured when the test ends.
We’ve described the purpose and scope of each type of test in our privacy impact assessment.
Privacy impact assessment [PDF, 2.2 MB]
We won’t share the information our safety cameras collect in test mode with any third parties, other than our technology providers.
Safety cameras also collect information for research and statistical analysis into roading activity. This includes information about vehicle types, counts, speeds, offence counts, more general compliance levels, and camera performance metrics. When we're using camera data for research purposes, we use anonymised and/or non-personal information. We keep it for as long as it’s useful for research purposes.
We release anonymised data sets through our Open Data Portal.
Waka Kotahi Open Data Portal(external link)
While our general privacy protections apply to how we use safety cameras, we also have another set of specific privacy protections in place for safety cameras and these are documented in our PIA. That's because the information we'll collect using safety cameras, and the ways we'll use the information, sits outside of our general privacy protections. We consult the Office of the Privacy Commissioner as we develop our privacy protections on data protection considerations.
As we introduce new types of safety cameras, we’ll review our PIA to make sure it stays accurate.
If you use your debit or credit card to pay for an infringement fee, we’ll transfer you to Paymark, our card payment provider. The Paymark privacy policy will apply.
Paymark Privacy Policy(external link)
If you pay by internet banking, we’ll transfer you to POLi to process your payment, and the POLi privacy policy will apply.
POLi Privacy Policy(external link)
We collect card or bank account details to process a refund. We won’t keep card information, but we will keep bank account details to allow our system to process the refund. We’ll hold the bank account and refund information in our system for 7 years.
Request access to or correction of your information
If you have a complaint about how we handled your personal information, please see our privacy complaints information.
