Calling freedom of information practitioners – it’s your last chance to register for our International Access to Information Day event livestream. 📅Wednesday 25 September 🕘 9:15 am to 12:30 pm AEST Speakers: – National Data Commissioner Gayle Milnes – Digital Transformation Agency CEO Chris Fechner – Australian Digital Health Agency CEO Amanda Cattermole PSM – Australian Information Commissioner Elizabeth Tydd – Freedom of Information Commissioner Toni Pirani. To RSVP, email icon@oaic.gov.au #IAID2024 #IAID #AccessToInfoDay #AccessToInfo
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
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We promote and uphold privacy and information access rights
About us
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) is the independent national regulator for privacy and freedom of information. Our purpose is to uphold privacy and information access rights. As an independent statutory agency, the OAIC’s work is of national significance and plays an important role in shaping Australia’s information handling landscape across the economy – from government, digital platforms and the online environment, to health, finance and telecommunications. We are an agency within the Attorney-General Department’s portfolio with responsibility for: • privacy functions under the Privacy Act 1988 and other legislation • freedom of information, in particular review of decisions made by agencies and ministers under the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
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http://www.oaic.gov.au
External link for Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
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- Sydney, NSW
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- 2010
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Sydney, NSW 2001, AU
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Updates
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We received 527 data breach notifications in the first half of 2024 – the highest number of data breaches in 3.5 years. Swipe to see some other findings from our latest Notifiable data breaches report: https://lnkd.in/eAfqxhJA #DataBreach #DataBreaches
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Today the Digital Platform Regulators Forum (DP-REG) published a working paper on multimodal foundation models. Multimodal foundation models are a type of generative AI that can process and generate multiple outputs, such as text, image, audio and video. The paper explores how DP-REG members’ existing regulatory frameworks and experience apply to the challenges of generative AI. It will also help inform broader government work on AI underway. This paper supports DP-REG’s 2024–26 strategic priorities, which include a focus on understanding, assessing and responding to the benefits, risks and harms of technology, including AI models. DP-REG members are the OAIC, the ACCC, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and the eSafety Commissioner. Read the paper: https://lnkd.in/gRGrfuM9 👀 Watch this space as the OAIC will soon publish guidance for organisations: - seeking to develop and train generative AI models - using commercially available AI products. The guidance will provide further clarity on the application of the Privacy Act to AI. #ArtificialIntelligence #MultimodalFoundationModels
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Test your knowledge of freedom of information in the lead up to International Access to Information Day. #IAID2024 #IAID #AccessToInfoDay #AccessToInfo
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A key feature of the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 is a mandate for the OAIC to develop a Children’s Online Privacy Code – we share why this is a much-needed initiative and our approach as the code developer: https://lnkd.in/gSiNnprm
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We’ve released our Notifiable data breaches report for January to June 2024. The report includes statistics on data breaches notified to the OAIC and shines a spotlight on key themes and issues. Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind said in her foreword: ‘After 6 years of the NDB scheme, we expect entities to comply with their obligations. It is no longer acceptable for privacy to be an afterthought; entities need to be taking a privacy-centric approach in everything they do.’ 📰 Media release: https://lnkd.in/eVPNF7bz 📘 Report: https://lnkd.in/eAfqxhJA #DataBreach #DataBreaches
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The OAIC welcomes the first tranche of reforms to the Privacy Act 1988 as an important first step in strengthening Australia’s privacy framework. Among other things, the Bill introduced to Parliament today will: 🧰 strengthen the OAIC’s enforcement toolkit 🧒 require the OAIC to develop a new Children’s Online Privacy Code to enhance online privacy protections for children ⚖️ introduce a statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy. Read our media release: https://lnkd.in/g5FU3NgN
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There is a range of events across Australia and online later this month to recognise the community’s right to access government-held information and mark International Access to Information Day (IAID). Tuesday 24 September: The Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner is hosting a panel discussion with Commissioner Elizabeth Tydd and information commissioners from NSW, Queensland and Victoria around the IAID theme ‘Mainstreaming access to information and participation in the public sector’: https://lnkd.in/gJqvJ5XX Wednesday 25 September: We are hosting an event for FOI practitioners at Old Parliament House in Canberra and via livestream (registrations open for livestream only): https://lnkd.in/gEcC5r_D Wednesday 25 September: Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner is hosting a lightning talk on working with vulnerable groups seeking access to information: https://lnkd.in/g565CsTV Thursday 26 September: The Office of the Information Commissioner (Queensland) is hosting their annual Solomon Lecture, this year with a keynote by Professor AJ Brown AM. Commissioner Tydd will be a panellist: https://lnkd.in/dDv9fpt4 #IAID2024 #IAID #AccessToInfoDay #AccessToInfo
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Listen to the latest episode of Dr Miah Hammond-Errey’s Technology and Security podcast to hear an interview with Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind. The episode starts with a discussion of an ideal privacy landscape, where the underpinning infrastructure protects individual privacy and individuals feel they have agency and choice when it comes to the products and technologies they use. Other topics covered include: 🕵️♂️ the significant role of advertising and extractive data economies as drivers of the technological ecosystem 🔒 the interdependency of AI on data 🏗️ the already large and growing infrastructural power of technology that is shaping society. Listen now: https://lnkd.in/gTWVmSDg (also on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)
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