The Latest Breaking News from OAIC

Senator Nick McKim says company’s ‘opaque’ SRAT security assessment tool ‘has severe implications for fundamental human rights’

Incident comes as data shows government sector breaches mostly caused by human error, not criminal acts

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner launches inquiry into platform’s use of marketing pixels to track people’s online habits

The most significant recommendation in the Senate inquiry report on the functionality of the Commonwealth FOI system is this: move the federal Freedom of Information (FOI) function from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s Office (OAIC) to the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s Office.

Australian Clinical Labs hack alleged to have resulted in more than 200,000 health records and credit card details being published on dark web

Four-year appeal to obtain information on secret trawling of journalists’ data by law enforcement agencies continues

Law firm says ‘complex manual review’ needed to assess what information was involved and to identify those affected

Angelene Falk responds to Leo Hardiman’s extraordinary accusations to a Senate inquiry which he claimed led to his resignation

In court documents Meta says parts of the case brought against it by Australia’s privacy regulator are ‘embarrassing’ and ‘defective’

Former senator appeals federal court ruling that information watchdog’s lengthy delays were not unreasonable as it was bound by funding

Breach, discovered by Guardian Australia, resulted in information being used to allegedly threaten some in detention