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Community attitudes on information access measured

September 24, 2021 - 1:49pm

Information Access Commissioners and Commonwealth Ombudsman have released the findings of their second cross jurisdictional study of community attitudes on access to government information.

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Open by Design Principles

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.

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Privacy case note #3, 2021: Agency discloses copy of records to a legal firm whose client had the same name as complainant

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.

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Privacy case note #2, 2021: Health service refuses to remove references about prior medical diagnosis

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.

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Privacy case note #1, 2021: Agency discloses information about debt to estranged family member

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.

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