The Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC) is responsible for governing the Victorian government’s collection, use and disclosure of information. Their aim was to build community trust in the government's handling of information, and comprise three distinct roles all working under the same organisation: the Information Commissioner, the Public Access Deputy Commissioner, and the Privacy and Data Protection Commissioner.

Prior to OVIC, these three roles used to work independently. OVIC, however, changed all this and was given the combined oversight of information access, information privacy, and data protection. As such, they wanted to establish themselves as a leader in Freedom of Information (FOI) and privacy education in Victoria.