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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?
Media release: Strategic Review of the Office of the Information Commissioner
May 12, 2017 - 3:43pm
An independent strategic review of the Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) was conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers.