OAIC and Hotjar
Dear Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,
I understand that the OAIC uses services provided by https://www.hotjar.com/ presumably after having entered into a contract with Hotjar to use its services.
Section 95B of the Privacy Act imposes a range of obligations on Commonwealth agencies, including in relation to the taking of certain contractual measures, when agencies enter into contracts with service providers such as Hotjar.
Under the FOI Act, and noting the OAIC's role in providing best practice Privacy Act compliance for all Cth agencies, I seek a copy of the OAIC’s contract with Hotjar.
Yours faithfully,
O Wendell
Our reference: FOIREQ19/00041
Dear O Wendell
Freedom of Information request
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 15 February 2019.
Scope of your request
In your email you seek access to the following:
Under the FOI Act, and noting the OAIC's role in providing
best practice Privacy Act compliance for all Cth agencies, I seek a copy
of the OAIC’s contract with Hotjar.
Timeframes for dealing with your request
Section 15 of the FOI Act requires this office to process your request no
later than 30 days after the day we receive it. However, section 15(6) of
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As we received your request on 15 February 2019, we must process your
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Dear OAIC
Thank you for your decision on my FOI request.
In response, I'm writing to make a complaint under the Privacy Act - that the OAIC has contravened section 95B of the Privacy Act including by failing to take contractual measures with Hotjar to ensure that Hotjar does not do an act, or engage in a practice, that would breach an Australian Privacy Principle if done or engaged in by the OAIC.
Yours sincerely,
O Wendell
Dear O Wendell
Thank you for your email.
I understand that you wish to make a privacy complaint to the OAIC. I note
that the Right to Know website is a platform used by individuals to make
freedom of information requests to government agencies. Your privacy
complaint is not a request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth).
If you wish to complain to the OAIC about how we have handled your
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-----Original Message-----
From: O Wendell <[FOI #5260 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2019 7:08 AM
To: Megan McKenna <[email address]>
Subject: Re: FOIREQ19/00041- Your freedom of information request
[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Dear OAIC
Thank you for your decision on my FOI request.
In response, I'm writing to make a complaint under the Privacy Act - that
the OAIC has contravened section 95B of the Privacy Act including by
failing to take contractual measures with Hotjar to ensure that Hotjar
does not do an act, or engage in a practice, that would breach an
Australian Privacy Principle if done or engaged in by the OAIC.
Yours sincerely,
O Wendell
-----Original Message-----
Dear O Wendell
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request.
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Thank you for your email Ms McKenna.
In accordance with your advice, I lodged a complaint with the OAIC on 20 March 2019 regarding the OAIC’s failure to comply with the Privacy Act in respect of its contractual relationship with Hotjar.
The facts of the case were straight forward:
(1) Subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act requires government agencies such as the OAIC, when entering into Commonwealth contracts (with entities such as Hotjar) to take contractual measures “to ensure that a contracted service provider for the contract does not do an act, or engage in a practice, that would breach an Australian Privacy Principle if done or engaged in by the agency”.
(2) By its own admission, the OAIC entered into a Commonwealth contract with Hotjar, but notwithstanding the requirements of subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act, the OAIC’s contract with Hotjar did not contain contractual measures to ensure that Hotjar does not do an act, or engage in practices, that would amount to a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles, if done or engaged in by the OAIC.
On 18 April, 2019. Acting Principal Lawyer at the OAIC, Ms Cate Cloudsdale, responded to my complaint, on behalf of the Information Commissioner stating “I do not consider that the OAIC has breached s 95B in this instance”.
Noting that Ms Cloudsdale did not provide any reasoning to justify the Information Commissioner’s finding, I requested reasons to support that decision.
Some 14 weeks later (!!!), Ms Cloudsdale responded to my request for reasons by indicating that because the OAIC’s contract with Hotjar did not contain a provision authorising Hotjar to engage in acts or practices that would breach the Australian Privacy Principles, the OAIC complied with subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act.
I note this constitutes a novel and convenient approach to compliance with subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act, where compliance with s.95B(1) can be achieved by passivity as to contractual measures, rather than by agencies taking active contractual measures. I note this approach is the opposite to that of previous findings, declarations and guidance made/given by the Information Commissioner in respect of subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act (although I acknowledge that those findings/declarations etc were made at a time when the OAIC was run as if it were an independent, impartial and apolitical organisation) as well as advice given to me on numerous occasions by OAIC staff in relation to the requirements of subsection 95B(1).
Example 1: In the Information Commissioner’s submission to the Australian Senate on the National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 made in September 2016 (here: https://oaic.gov.au/engage-with-us/submi...) the former Commissioner advised in relation to subsection 95B(1) that “Agencies will generally need to include specific or practical provisions in their contracts and where particular information handling practices are required to comply with an APP, these should also be addressed in the contract.”
Example 2: in the OAIC’s assessment of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s contracts for services in regional processing centres (conducted in September 2016), the OAIC found that “The OAIC generally expects that, in meeting its obligations under […] s 95B, an agency will go beyond a simple contractual provision requiring the contractor not to do an act or engage in a practice that would breach the APPs if done or engaged in by the agency. Specific provisions may be required, for example, requiring the CSP to take particular steps to protect privacy after the conclusion or termination of the contract.” In other words, to comply with subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act, agencies must actively include contractual terms within Commonwealth contracts.
Example 3: In his submission to the Digital Transformation Agency made in December 2017, here: https://oaic.gov.au/engage-with-us/submi... the former Information Commissioner advised in relation to subsection 95B(1), that “The OAIC generally considers this requirement, taken together with APP 11, to require the agency to take positive steps to assure itself that the contracted service provider is handling personal information in accordance with the APPs.”
I note that one consequence of the Information Commissioner’s new and convenient interpretation and application of subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act is that a service provider who is contracted to a Commonwealth agency and who is not subject to an express contractual term that prohibits that provider from contravening the Australian Privacy Principles will be able to breach the privacy of Australian citizens (by contravening an APP) and the relevant agency will not be able to immediately terminate the contract for breach. That’s an outcome that is clearly not in the public interest. Nor does it accord with the intentions of Parliament.
I’m also aware of at least five Commonwealth agencies (including two large central agencies) that will now need to change their written procurement and privacy procedures so as to incorporate the Information Commissioner’s revised and less onerous guidance in respect of the requirements of subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act.
Under the FOI Act, I request a copy of Ms Cate Cloudsdale’s email to me, O Wendell, at my email address: [email address] of 26 July 2019 with subject “AR19/00029 - Reasons for finding in PRIV COMP 19/00001 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]”. There’s a strong public interest in the release of this document because it will serve to advise all Commonwealth agencies of the Information Commissioner’s new, convenient and far less onerous interpretation and application of subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act (albeit that this new interpretation necessarily involves far less protection of the personal information of Australian citizens). I consent to the release of my personal information in the granting of access to the document sought.
Thanks
O Wendell
Dear Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,
I’m aware that in approximately April – July 2019, the OAIC engaged lawyers at Holding Redlich and HWL Ebsworth to investigate a complaint that the OAIC had contravened the Privacy Act in entering into a contract with Hotjar.
I note that:
- certain OAIC staff have personal relationships with lawyers at those firms;
- those firms charge at rates approximately 30% - 50% greater than those charged by more ethical legal service providers, such as the Australia Government Solicitor; and
- Commonwealth agencies tend to engage more expensive legal service providers when they want legal advice that is politically convenient, but not necessarily accurate at law.
Under the FOI Act, I seek access to copies of invoices given to the OAIC by Holding Redlich and HWL Ebsworth in respect of their services related to consideration of whether the OAIC’s contractual arrangements with Hotjar comply with the requirements of the Privacy Act.
There’s a strong public interest in the information contained in the documents I seek because:
- taxpayers have a right to know the quantum of public monies spent by the Privacy regulator in determining whether its own staff have contravened the Privacy Act; and
- the documents will shed light on whether OAIC staff have adhered to the Commonwealth Procurement Rules and the Public Service Act.
Yours faithfully,
O Wendell
Our Reference: FOIREQ19/00187
Dear O Wendell,
Freedom of Information request
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 16 August 2019.
Scope of your request
In your email you seek access to the following:
a copy of Ms Cate Cloudsdale’s email to me, O Wendell, at my [personal]
email address of 26 July 2019 with subject “AR19/00029 - Reasons for
finding in PRIV COMP 19/00001 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]”. There’s a strong public
interest in the release of this document because it will serve to advise
all Commonwealth agencies of the Information Commissioner’s new,
convenient and far less onerous interpretation and application of
subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act (albeit that this new interpretation
necessarily involves far less protection of the personal information of
Australian citizens). I consent to the release of my personal information
in the granting of access to the document sought.
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Our reference: FOIREQ19/00188
Dear O Wendell
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Our reference: FOIREQ19/00188
Dear O Wendell
Freedom of information request no. FOIREQ19/00188
I refer to your request made under the Freedom of Information Act 1982
(Cth) (FOI Act) and received by the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) on 16 August 2019.
Because your request covers documents which contain information concerning
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Dear Amanda Nowland,
In relation to my FOI request of 16 August 2019 with OAIC reference: FOIREQ19/00188, I consent to the OAIC redacting the personal information of Angela Flannery and Bede Gahan and any other person from any relevant document/invoice who is not/was not an OAIC staff member and/or public servant. I also consent to the OAIC redacting the hourly rates charged by Holding Redlich and HWL Ebsworth and the amount of time spent by those law firms on matters to which the invoices relates. Rather, I’m interested and the taxpaying public has an interest in the total amount of public money (as billed/listed on the relevant invoices) the OAIC gave to these law firms to investigate the allegedly unlawful activities of OAIC staff.
Yours sincerely,
O Wendell
Our Reference: FOIREQ19/00187
Dear O Wendell
Your Freedom of Information request
I refer to your request for access to documents under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act), received by the Office of the
Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on 16 August 2019.
You requested access to
a copy of Ms Cate Cloudsdale’s email to me, O Wendell, at my [personal]
email address of 26 July 2019 with subject “AR19/00029 - Reasons for
finding in PRIV COMP 19/00001 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]”. There’s a strong public
interest in the release of this document because it will serve to advise
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convenient and far less onerous interpretation and application of
subsection 95B(1) of the Privacy Act (albeit that this new interpretation
necessarily involves far less protection of the personal information of
Australian citizens). I consent to the release of my personal information
in the granting of access to the document sought.
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in relation to FOI requests.
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Please find attached correspondence in relation to FOIREQ19/00188.
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Dear Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,
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.
Yours faithfully,
O Wendell
Our reference: FOIREQ19/00252
Dear O Wendell
Freedom of Information request
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.
Scope of your request
In your email you seek access to the following:
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.
In order to process your request as efficiently as possible, I will
exclude duplicates and early parts of email streams that are captured in
later email streams from the scope of this request, unless you advise me
otherwise.
Timeframes for dealing with your request
Section 15 of the FOI Act requires this office to process your request no
later than 30 days after the day we receive it. However, section 15(6) of
the FOI Act allows us a further 30 days in situations where we need to
consult with third parties about certain information, such as business
documents or documents affecting their personal privacy.
As we received your request on 26 November 2019, we must process your
request by Thursday, 26 December 2019.
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would be unreasonable to publish.
If you would like to discuss this matter please contact me on my contact
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Dear O Wendell,
Please find attached a decision in relation to your Freedom of Information
request.
Kind Regards,
Amanda
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Locutus Sum left an annotation ()
The original request in the very first email, is for a copy of a contract. The request has been refused. Section 24A of the Act: Documents do not exist or cannot be found.