IPC Annual Report 2023/24


The Information and Privacy Commission NSW (IPC) has published its Annual Report 2023/24 today which documents its work and achievements throughout the 2023/24 reporting period.

The Annual Report was tabled in NSW Parliament on 21 October 2024.

2023/24 highlights include:

  • 21 strategic and regulatory initiatives finalised across the IPC’s Strategic Plan
  • 52 mandatory breach notifications were made to the Acting Privacy Commissioner
  • 2 GIPA compliance audits finalised
  • finalisation of 658 information access and privacy reviews and complaints, a decrease of 46 from the 2022/23 reporting period
  • 560 information access and privacy advices provided to support compliance by agencies
  • Release of two new e-learning modules on the Mandatory Notification of Data Breach Scheme 
  • Commissioners provided submissions to 9 reviews and inquiries conducted by government including 3 joint submissions by the Information Commissioner and the Privacy Commissioner
  • 3,123 enquiries dealt with from the public, an increase of 27 from the 3,096 dealt with in 2022/23
  • 654,942 page views and an 32.7% increase in website visits to the IPC website (ipc.nsw.gov.au)
  • Raising awareness of privacy and information access rights with the release of 21 new information access, privacy and corporate publications, and 41 publications updated
  • Introduction of new citizen webforms on the IPC website. 

Download a copy of the IPC Annual Report 2023/24 on the IPC website.