Mark R. Diamond
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 36)
Submission to APS review
Clarification sent to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Mark R. Diamond on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
Thank you for your reply. I withdraw my request.
Yours sincerely,
Mark R. Diamond
Rates for pension, supplement, energy supplement and thresholds (as indexed)
Response by Services Australia to Mark R. Diamond on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
Dear Mr Diamond
We confirm that we have treated your request as withdrawn as of yesterday.
Regards
Isabella
Employment Law and FOI Branch
Legal Ser...
Conduct of the Personal Safety Survey, 2012
Follow up sent to Australian Bureau of Statistics by Mark R. Diamond on .
Partially successful.
Many thanks to you and your team for your comprehensive response to my recent FOI request for information about the conduct of the Personal Safety S...
NAmes of officers responsible for policy of not sending notices
Follow up sent to Australian Taxation Office by Mark R. Diamond on .
Long overdue.
Freedom of Information
Australian Taxation Office
GPO Box 4889
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Something appears to have gone wrong. I was expecting a notice o...
In re open source software and associated costs or donations
Follow up sent to Australian Taxation Office by Mark R. Diamond on .
Long overdue.
I take it that that is a refusal to deal with my complaint.
Yours sincerely,
Mark R. Diamond
Gamma International's FinFisher
Refused.
This is the text of the follow-up letter to the Information Commissioner regarding my request for IC review.
Sunday, 21 May 2017
Office of the Aust...
This is the text of the follow-up letter to the Information Commissioner regarding my request for IC review.
Sunday, 21 May 2017
Office of the Aust...
suRootRemote malicious surveillance software
Response by Australian Federal Police to Mark R. Diamond on .
Refused.
For-Official-Use-Only
Good afternoon Mr Diamond,
Please find attached our decision in relation to your Freedom of
Information request.
Y...
In re: Reason codes
Withdrawn by the requester.
I have marked this request as having been withdrawn, not because I have withdrawn it, nor because I want to withdraw it. Instead, the operation of sect...
Hacking Team's malware, sold as "offensive security" software . Earlier years.
Response by Australian Federal Police to Mark R. Diamond on .
Refused.
For-Official-Use-Only
Good afternoon Mr Diamond,
Please find attached our internal review decision in relation to your
Freedom of Information...
Location of FTTN cabinets
Response by NBN Co Limited to Mark R. Diamond on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
nbn-Confidential: INTERNAL + RESTRICTED ACCESS ONLY
Mr Diamond - The time period's expired for the payment of the advance deposit, so your request is d...
Hacking Team's malware, sold as "offensive security" software
Information not held.
For some of my thoughts about this request and the basis for its refusal, see my comments on the page about Gamma International's FinFisher spyware at...
Reports of evaluations of government policy interventions
Request to Department of Agriculture and Water Resources by Mark R. Diamond. Annotated by Mark R. Diamond on .
Partially successful.
I've left this request showing as "open" (now "delayed") only because I intend to follow up the suggestions of the FOI officer in the next couple of da...
Reports of evaluations of government policy interventions
Follow up sent to Department of Health by Mark R. Diamond on .
Successful.
Many thanks for the useful information in your email reply of 10 January 2017.
Yours faithfully,
Mark R. Diamond
Reports of evaluations of government policy interventions
Follow up sent to Department of Social Services by Mark R. Diamond on .
Successful.
Many thanks for the useful information in your email reply of 13 January 2017.
Yours sincerely,
Mark R. Diamond
State of the Service survey data
Request to Australian Public Service Commission by Mark R. Diamond. Annotated by Mark R. Diamond on .
Successful.
The information about the background to the survey and its release on data.gov.au was interesting and helpful. As a point of verification, it is worth...
Comments about Freedom of Information made by Mr Michael Parkinson
Follow up sent to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Mark R. Diamond on .
Successful.
Thank you for the information regarding Dr Parkinson's comments about the Freedom of Information Act. Please treat the matter as closed.
Yours fai...
Comments purportedly made by Commissioner John Lloyd
Follow up sent to Australian Public Service Commission by Mark R. Diamond on .
Successful.
Thank you very much for the prompt and clear reply. You can certainly treat the application as closed.
Kind regards,
Mark Diamond
Tobacco Tracing Surveys completed since February 2009
Response by Cancer Institute NSW to Mark R. Diamond on .
Successful.
Dear Mr Diamond
In response to your request below, please find attached a copy of the
Cancer Institute NSW Tobacco Tracking Surveys, in Excel fo...
Cost of legal advice in 2011
Follow up sent to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Mark R. Diamond on .
Partially successful.
Many thanks for the information in your email of 27 August 2015.
Yours sincerely,
Mark R. Diamond
Copyright in My School website content
Response by Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority to Mark R. Diamond on .
Refused.
Senate Estimates brief for Secretary Halton
Response by Department of Finance to Mark R. Diamond on .
Successful.
UNCLASSIFIED
Hi Mark
The document released to you was the only relevant document within the scope of your request.
Regards,
Chak
FOI Officer
Corp...
Request for correspondence relating to terms of use of My School
Request to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Mark R. Diamond. Annotated by Mark R. Diamond on .
Successful.
The documents are interesting primarily for what they do not contain, rather than what they do ... by which I most definitely do not mean to imply that...
Thank you to Ben Fairless for having zipped the submissions and linked them to this request.
Default copyright position on departmental web documents
Follow up sent to Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources by Mark R. Diamond on .
Successful.
FOI Coordinator
Legal Branch
GPO Box 9839
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Default copyright position on departmental web documents
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Submission to APS review
Request to Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet by Mark R. Diamond. Annotated by Mark R. Diamond on .
Withdrawn by the requester.
@Julie. Thank you for the suggestion, and I agree that it might be quicker. However, a direct approach would not cause the submission to be publicly av...
ATO IT outages Feb 2016=7
Refused.
The latest reply from the ATO says, "On 23 June 2017, you were issued a notice of intention to refuse your FOI request as a ‘practical
refusal reason’...
Yet another example of an ATO officer failing to do their duty according to law. Instead of sending the applicant a decision notice, the ATO has sent a...
Yet another example of ATO officers not doing their duty according to law. A notice (possibly a correctly formed decision notice, but possibly not) has...
Failure of ICT systems
Awaiting internal review.
The latest reply from the ATO says, "On 23 June 2017, you were issued a notice of intention to refuse your FOI request as a ‘practical
refusal reason’...
Again, I think that you have misunderstood. The information might be released onto a website and published on their disclosure log and their is a clear...
I think you missed the point. Complaint were made; the OAIC recommended that the ATO resume processing requests from Right to Know, and now the ATO hav...
ATO purported manipulation of phone system performance statistics
Awaiting internal review.
Why is it that no one has complained about the behavior of the ATO. Having refused for 9 months to process requests filed through Right to Know, they n...
Why is it that no one has complained about the behavior of the ATO. Having refused for 9 months to process requests filed through Right to Know, they n...
Yammer Enterprise Agreement Group Deletion
Information not held.
Why is it that no one has complained about the behavior of the ATO. Having refused for 9 months to process requests filed through Right to Know, they n...
Failure of ICT systems
Awaiting internal review.
Why is it that no one has complained about the behavior of the ATO. Having refused for 9 months to process requests filed through Right to Know, they n...
ATO IT outages Feb 2016=7
Refused.
Why is it that no one has complained about the behavior of the ATO. Having refused for 9 months to process requests filed through Right to Know, they n...
Why is it that no one has complained about the behavior of the ATO. Having refused for 9 months to process requests filed through Right to Know, they n...
Why is it that no one has complained about the behavior of the ATO. Having refused for 9 months to process requests filed through Right to Know, they n...
ATO refusal to respond to FOI requests made through Right To Know
Partially successful.
Why is it that no one has complained about the behavior of the ATO. Having refused for 9 months to process requests filed through Right to Know, they n...
Rather than arguing about charges, you might instead tell the department that the thing they have found (i.e. a PDF) is not the document that you are r...
Gamma International's FinFisher
Refused.
This is the text of the follow-up letter to the Information Commissioner regarding my request for IC review.
Sunday, 21 May 2017
Office of the Aust...
This is the text of the follow-up letter to the Information Commissioner regarding my request for IC review.
Sunday, 21 May 2017
Office of the Aust...
I have lodged an application for IC review. I had intended to post here the text of the request for IC review sooner, but forgot. The text is as follow...
Gamma International's FinFisher
Refused.
I have lodged an application for IC review. I had intended to post here the text of the request for IC review sooner, but forgot. The text is as follow...
In re: Reason codes
Withdrawn by the requester.
I have marked this request as having been withdrawn, not because I have withdrawn it, nor because I want to withdraw it. Instead, the operation of sect...
Gamma International's FinFisher
Refused.
There's an interesting United States parallel to my request, but with a very different outcome, reported in an article on Motherboard titled "Here's a...
There's an interesting United States parallel to my request, but with a very different outcome, reported in an article on Motherboard titled "Here's a...
My School Data
Request to Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority by Lauren Johnson. Annotated by Mark R. Diamond on .
Partially successful.
You will not obtain the data you want from ACARA under either FOI or under administrative arrangements. I know. See, Diamond and Australian Curriculum,...
Gamma International's FinFisher
Refused.
This is now a little further along than Henare Degan's original request (https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/gamma_internationals_finfisher ) was. N...