Information Commissioner's Office ICO and Office of the Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand, sign Memorandum of Understanding The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU builds on the existing strong relationship between ICO and OPC, recognising their shared common mission to uphold people’s information rights, while supporting digital innovation and economic development. Cooperation between international data protection authorities is essential in our times of global data-driven business and this MOU builds on the strong collaboration the two authorities already enjoy as active members of the Global Privacy Assembly, which the ICO currently chairs. The MOU comes soon after New Zealand’s new privacy law has come into force, and at a time of increasing trade between the UK and New Zealand.