The Victorian government has announced it will create a single organisation to oversee privacy and freedom of information issues in the state. The government announced today it will create an Office ...

The Australian state of Victoria has announced the appointment of Sven Bluemmel as its inaugural information commissioner. In his new role, Bluemmel will oversee the state's data protection laws, ...

The Black Victorians. Who were they? And why haven’t we heard more about them? Similar to the legend that was Dido Elizabeth Belle, a biracial aristocrat (unearthed by filmmaker Amma Asante, who ...

In short: The privacy regulator has found the Department of Health failed to protect Victorians' data during the COVID-19 pandemic What's next? The regulator has made recommendations for the ...

The Victorian government will be uploading driver's licence data to the federal government's National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution (NDLFRS), in a bid to crack down on identity fraud. The ...

Outgoing Victorian Information Commissioner Sven Bluemmel said state government departments and agencies took a habitual ­approach to blocking information from release, which was eroding public trust ...

The University of Melbourne will be subject to an investigation by the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner over its use of surveillance technology, including wi-fi location data, to ...

And it is true that the Victorians had mummy unwrapping parties. So mummies would be, you know, shipped over from Egypt and ...

The Allan government is opposing a Freedom of Information request relating to the system, with lawyers for the Premier’s office telling the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal the documents ...