Our FOI disclosure log

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.

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.

Request for the information that the Review found there to be a clear public interest in, and that it recommended be precisely and publicly reported. Specifically, I seek access to the names and associated remuneration of OAIC’s key management personnel for the 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 financial years. For the purpose of my request, the OAIC’s management personnel constitute OAIC staff who are/were categorised as SES in the relevant periods.

Full access provided.

The request was taken to include the SES associated remuneration of the OAIC’s key management personnel in the financial years listed.

Published 27 May 2020.

1. A document, submission or things showing the group of individuals involved in enactment and enforcement of the no smoking policies of Commonwealth Government Departments and their related State counterparts
2. A document, submission or things that identifies which Political entity/ies the originating policies referred to in Item 1 pertain to.
3. A document, submission or things that identifies the Senators or Ministers and their Government Department portfolio responsibilities at the time relating to Items 1 and 2.
4. A document, agreement, contract or things that refers to the Government Departments or participants in the approval processes for importing and distributing tobacco and related products into Australia.
5. A document, submission or thing that reliably identifies which religious or racial interests are represented in relation to Items 1-4 based on either Charitable Undertakings or work related employment contracts.

Full access provided.

Published 29 April 2019.