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Our FOI disclosure log
RSS feedThe information described in our disclosure log has been released by the OAIC under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) and is available for public access.
We maintain at least two financial years of disclosure log entries on our website. Earlier disclosure log entries can be viewed on Trove.
If you’re looking for information that is not available on our disclosure log, you can email us at foi@oaic.gov.au or contact our enquiries line to ask for the document.
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Documents are made available for download in PDF format. If you are unable to access this format, please email us at foi@oaic.gov.au or contact our enquiries line and we will try to provide the document in an alternate format (for example, in Word or large-print hard copy). The OAIC does not impose a charge for providing access to information on our disclosure log.
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Total results: 182.
Request for access to documents relating to the 2007 and 2013 Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey. You specifically sought access to:
- The full questionnaire for all questions posed to respondents;
- Any codebooks produced for data analysis, as described in your point 2) below.
- How many people were contacted per survey (ie. The response rate)
- …
- 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.
Partial access provided.
Released in part subject to s 47F.
Published 30 August 2019.
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.
Partial access provided.
Released in part subject to ss 37(1)(a) 42 and 47F
Published 11 September 2019.
Request for access to documents relating to the 1994, 2004, 2011 and 2017 Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey. You sought access to:
- The full questionnaire for all questions posed to respondents;
- Any codebooks produced for data analysis, as described in your point 2) below.
- How many people were contacted per survey (ie. The response rate)
- …
- 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.
Partial access provided.
Released in part subject to s 47F.
Published 30 August 2019.
Request for a report showing the sources of notifiable data breaches by sector
Full access provided.
Published 2 September 2019.
Notifiable Data Breaches received by the OAIC that were attributed as being a result of hacking.
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.
Published 18 July 2019.
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.
Full access provided.
Published 25 July 2019.
A summary of the functions of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
Full access provided.
Published 5 July 2019.
Documents, including but not limited to forms and email correspondence, concerning the Facebook security breach (discovered in January) where millions of passwords were stored in plain text on Facebook&apos
Partial access provided.
Released in part subject to s 47E(d).
The applicant agreed to exclude the names and contact details of Facebook personnel from the scope of the request.
Published 5 July 2019.