September 24, 2021 - 9:26am
Australian Information Access Commissioners and Ombudsmen published an authoritative statement to promote the proactive release of information. The Open by Design Principles were released ahead of International Access to Information Day on 28 September.
September 6, 2021 - 11:14am
OIC was contacted by a complainant who stated the agency had provided a copy of her agency records to a legal firm, whose client had the same name as her. All other information was different including the two people’s ages, their places of residence and the currency of the records.
August 9, 2021 - 9:26am
The complainant had been in prolonged discussions with a health service over what she perceived to be a medical misdiagnosis recorded on her medical file. The doctor involved subsequently retracted their diagnosis and the complainant requested that all references to the diagnosis be removed. The health service refused the request to preserve the historical integrity of medical records.
July 7, 2021 - 9:44am
Case notes are examples of how we work to resolve privacy complaints made to us. They are real cases that our Office has worked on and they are intended to give practitioners an idea of how we apply the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld) in resolving privacy disputes between complainants and respondent organisations or agencies. They will highlight interesting aspects of a particular case or discuss some aspect of the law.
July 2, 2021 - 10:36am
We have published guidance on the collection of COVID-19 vaccination status information to assist agencies in meeting their privacy obligations and public sector employees in understanding their privacy rights.