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Reference number
FOIREQ19/00195
Date of access
20 September 2019
FOI request

Extracts from position descriptions for OAIC staff with responsibilities regarding authorisation of content or changes to content, development or updating of content - website or information technology.

Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ19/00195 Documents (PDF, 1.4 MB)
Other information

Released in Full 

Reference number
FOIREQ18/00058
Date of access
6 September 2019
FOI request

Documents in relation to a 2018 meeting between the OAIC and the representatives of Oracle.

Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ18/00058 Documents (PDF, 9.5 MB)
Other information

Partial access provided.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00154
Date of access
29 August 2019
FOI request

Request for access to documents relating to the 2007 and 2013 Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey. You specifically sought access to:

  1. The full questionnaire for all questions posed to respondents;
  2. Any codebooks produced for data analysis, as described in your point 2) below.
  3. How many people were contacted per survey (ie. The response rate)
  4. …
  5. A copy of previous FOI requests made in relation to the surveys and any documents that were relevant to these requests.

Machine-readable csv, txt, SPSS, or STATA format for the de-identified response data for each individual who was recorded in each of the surveys, for all of the questions in each survey, including demographic information … These can be anonymized by removing personally identifiable information like phone number, name, or email, but should not be aggregated so that I can distinguish the differences between each respondent for each question.

Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ19/00154 Documents (PDF, 8 MB)
Other information

Partial access provided.

Released in part subject to s 47F.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00171
Date of access
28 August 2019
FOI request

Request for access to documents relating to the 1994, 2004, 2011 and 2017 Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey. You sought access to:

  1. The full questionnaire for all questions posed to respondents;
  2. Any codebooks produced for data analysis, as described in your point 2) below.
  3. How many people were contacted per survey (ie. The response rate)
  4. …
  5. A copy of previous FOI requests made in relation to the surveys and any documents that were relevant to these requests.

Machine-readable csv, txt, SPSS, or STATA format for the de-identified response data for each individual who was recorded in each of the surveys, for all of the questions in each survey, including demographic information … These can be anonymized by removing personally identifiable information like phone number, name, or email, but should not be aggregated so that I can distinguish the differences between each respondent for each question.

Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ19/00171 Documents (PDF, 3.1 MB)
Other information

Partial access provided.

Released in part subject to s 47F.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00170
Date of access
28 August 2019
FOI request

Request for copies of emails, reports, briefs, talking points about Facebook data of any Australians acquired and used without authorisation to build profiles that political parties could use to target voters.

Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ19/00170 Documents (PDF, 2.6 MB)
Other information

Partial access provided.

Released in part subject to ss 37(1)(a) 42 and 47F

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00172
Date of access
19 August 2019
FOI request

Request for a report showing the sources of notifiable data breaches by sector

Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ19/00172 Documents (PDF, 741 KB)
Other information

Full access provided.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00121
Date of access
4 July 2019
FOI request

Notifiable Data Breaches received by the OAIC that were attributed as being a result of hacking.

Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ19/00121 Documents (PDF, 637 KB)
Other information

Full access provided.

Please note that the OAIC may receive multiple notifications about the same data breach, where it affects personal information held by more than one entity (known as multi-party breaches). These are counted as a single notification in our quarterly statistics report, as well as in our 12-month Insights Report.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00102
Date of access
11 June 2019
FOI request

All correspondence between Andrew Solomon and the Department of Home Affairs (or its representatives) in relation to the ongoing asylum seeker data breach complaint matter between January 2018 and the current day.

Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ19/00102 Documents (PDF, 970 KB)
Other information

Full access provided.