Our reference: FOIREQ19/00252
O Wendell
By email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Your Freedom of Information Request
Dear O Wendel ,
I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom of Information Act
1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act) and received by the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) on 26 November 2019.
In your letter you seek access to the fol owing:
I refer to the appearance of officers from the OAIC at Senate Estimates on 22 October 2019.
I’m aware that briefing materials were prepared for those officers to assist them at that
Senate Estimates appearance.
Under the FOI Act, I seek access to any part (and only those parts) of those briefing materials
that relate to Hotjar, Holding Redlich Lawyers and/or section 95B of the Privacy Act.
Decision
I am an officer authorised under s 23(1) of the FOI Act to make decisions in relation to FOI
requests.
I have identified one document within the scope of your request. The document is a
Commissioner brief on the OAIC regulation of privacy matters relating to offshore contracts.
I have decided to grant you access to the document in full, and now attach the document.

Yours sincerely,
Amanda Nowland

Senior Lawyer
24 December 2019

1300 363 992
T +61 2 9284 9749
GPO Box 5218
www.oaic.gov.au
xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
F +61 2 9284 9666
Sydney NSW 2001
ABN 85 249 230 937

If you disagree with my decision
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was not involved in or consulted in the making of my decision. If you wish to apply for an
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notices to and include a copy of this letter. A request for IC review can be made in relation to
my decision, or an internal review decision.
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administration of the FOI Act to conduct an IC review of a decision, or an internal review
decision, made by the agency that the Information Commissioner heads: the OAIC. For this
reason, if you make an application for IC review of my decision, and the Information
Commissioner is satisfied that in the interests of administration of the Act it is desirable that
my decision be considered by the AAT, the Information Commissioner may decide not to
undertake an IC review.
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decision, you must first have applied for IC review.
Applications for internal review or IC review can be submitted to:
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
GPO Box 5218
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Alternatively, you can submit your application by email to xxx@xxxx.xxx.xx, or by fax on
02 9284 9666.
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Accessing your information
If you would like access to the information that we hold about you, please
contact xxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx. More information is available on the Access our
information page on our website.
Disclosure log
Section 11C of the FOI Act requires agencies to publish online documents released to
members of the public within 10 days of release, except if they contain personal or business
information that it would be unreasonable to publish.
The documents I have decided to release to you do not contain business or personal
information that would be unreasonable to publish. As a result, the documents wil be
published on our disclosure log shortly after being released to you.

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Your Freedom of Information Request