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The OAIC

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Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

The regulator administering the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, which binds whoever holds personal information, not whoever got into it; on THE RORT's reading the scheme was never built to reach a company that accessed someone else's system rather than losing data from its own.

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Proportionality
The ground the OAIC gave for closing its MediSecure inquiries on 13 September 2024, after MediSecure had already entered administration.
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Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Reporting Rort$5.8 millionAustralian Clinical Labs, ordered 8 October 2025 to pay $5.8 million over a February 2022 breach, of which $1.6 million ($800,000 and $800,000) was…3 investigations →The Privacy RortProportionalityThe ground the OAIC gave for closing its MediSecure inquiries on 13 September 2024, after MediSecure had already entered administration.2 investigations →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every investigation naming itAs of 2026‑07‑06Auto-assembled

Nobody wrote this page. It assembled itself from every investigation that names The OAIC, and it deepens automatically each time The Rort publishes another. The more the archive grows, the sharper this dossier gets, and the lobbyist, the donation and the revolving-door minister who recur across all of it become impossible to miss.

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