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Transparency and access to information in the context of a global pandemic
April 17, 2020 - 2:14pm
The Australian Information Access Commissioners join with their international counterparts in their clear call for transparency and the right to access information as governments, businesses and citizens deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Secure disposal of personal information – responsibility from cradle to grave
February 11, 2020 - 10:02am
With the start of a new year, it is a timely reminder for public sector agencies to review their document destruction policies and processes to ensure they are compliant with the Information Privacy Act 2009 (IP Act) and the Public Records Act 2002, including Retention and Disposal Schedules.
Information Access Commissioners and Ombudsman release survey results on community attitudes
September 30, 2019 - 9:29am
Information Access Commissioners and Ombudsman today released the findings of their first cross jurisdictional study of community attitudes to access to government information.
Privacy Authorities Australia support complaint and enforcement cooperation
April 16, 2019 - 8:16am
Privacy Authorities Australia (PAA) was established in 2008 to be a forum for the sharing of ideas, developments, resources and knowledge to improve the collective information privacy capability of Privacy Authorities across Australia.
Over ten years later, inter-jurisdictional collaboration remains essential to privacy authorities’ effectiveness and to our ability to contribute solutions to privacy complaints, breaches and policy challenges that cross borders or involve complex systems and technologies. As the issues for privacy become ever more complex, it becomes increasingly challenging to retain the requisite specialised expertise within any one jurisdiction. By working together, we can leverage each authority’s comparative strengths to achieve a more extensive or cross-cutting result in our enforcement activities than we could individually.
Understanding External Review
October 22, 2018 - 9:38am
Want to know more about how the Office of the Information Commissioner’s External Review Team works? How it’s structured? Or exactly what happens after an external review application arrives at OIC?