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The 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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Total results: 154.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00190
Date of access
16 Oct 2019
FOI request

  1. The “header row” from a web server access log file; it may look something like the following:

    #Fields: date time s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-port cs-username c-ip cs(User-Agent) sc-status sc-substatus sc-win32-status time-taken

  2. Any configuration entries associated with contents of web server logs for this website; they may start with the directive “LogFormat” (minus the quotes).
  3. The column definitions for any and all database tables (or files or similar) used by piwik/matamo. They may look something like what is described in the “Database Schema”.
Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ19/00190 Documents
Other information

The document was created to show the information requested in points 1 and 2.

No documents could be found in relation to point 3.

Published 22 October 2019.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00188
Date of access
15 Oct 2019
FOI request

A copy of the invoices from Holding Redlich and HWL Ebsworth in relation to specific services provided to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. 

Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ19/00188 Documents
Other information

Partial access provided.

Published 28 October 2019.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00195
Date of access
20 Sep 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
Other information

Released in Full 

Published 25 September 2019.

Reference number
FOIREQ18/00058
Date of access
06 Sep 2019
FOI request

Documents regarding the OAIC meeting with representatives of the company Oracle.

Information published in the disclosure log
FOIREQ18/00058 Documents
Other information

Full access provided.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00154
Date of access
29 Aug 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
Other information

Partial access provided.

Released in part subject to s 47F.

Published 30 August 2019.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00170
Date of access
28 Aug 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
Other information

Partial access provided.

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

Published 11 September 2019.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00171
Date of access
28 Aug 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
Other information

Partial access provided.

Released in part subject to s 47F.

Published 30 August 2019.

Reference number
FOIREQ19/00172
Date of access
19 Aug 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
Other information

Full access provided.

Published 2 September 2019.