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Kim Dotcom, photographed in 2015, awaiting the decision of the judges in the Auckland District Court in his extradition case to the United States on charges of copyright infringement and illegal file sharing.
Kim Dotcom has taken another step toward obtaining compensation for the Attorney General who illegally rejected 52 “urgent” Privacy Act requests in 2015.
Dotcom faces extradition to the United States on criminal charges related to copyright, but in addition to fighting to stay in New Zealand, he has been seeking redress for violations of his privacy rights.
In 2015, Dotcom’s attorneys sent the Privacy Act “all requested” to 52 government agencies asking for all the personal information they had about him.
He asked that they be treated as “urgent” requests as he needed the information for his pending extradition hearing, but all 52 requests were handled by Attorney General Chris Findlayson, who rejected them.
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Now the Court of Appeal has determined that the 52 requests should have been dealt with separately by the 52 government agencies, including the Ministry of Defense.
And Court of Appeal judges Christine French, Brendan Brown and Denis Clifford ruled that the 52 applications should not have been rejected on “humiliating” grounds.
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Kim Dotcom’s greatest experiences were captured on film from 2017, but since then most of the action has taken place in the courtroom.
They sent the case to the Human Rights Review Tribunal, which would now consider damages due to Dotcom.
German-born Dotcom was the founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, which was shut down in 2012.
In November, the Supreme Court ruled that Dotcom could be extradited to the United States, but in a twist, the superior court gave Dotcom and his three co-defendants the ability to challenge the decision through judicial review.
The Dotcom case has embarrassed many New Zealand institutions, including the police, spy agencies, and prison authorities.
In 2013, then-Prime Minister John Key was forced to apologize to Dotcom after police discovered that the Government Communications Security Office had illegally spied on him.
The following year, the private prison operator Serco apologized to Dotcom for his treatment at Mt Eden Prison after his arrest already Things for initially providing incorrect information about your time in custody.
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Kim Dotcom has married her partner, Liz.
Dotcom alleged that he had not received any bedding, towel, toilet paper, soap, shampoo, toothpaste or toothbrush on the night of his incarceration, leaving him unable to wash after using the bathroom.
Dotcom has alleged that his arrest in New Zealand in 2012 was orchestrated by the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, to appease the interests of Hollywood in the wake of President Barack Obama torpedoing an anti-piracy bill, which would have introduced a maximum penalty of five years in prison for streaming pirated content.
The arrest was dramatic, with armed police robbing his rented Auckland mansion by helicopter at dawn, at the behest of the FBI, claiming he was part of a “mega conspiracy”.
