The Data Protection Bill, 2012
individual has been involved;
(c) any identifying number, symbol or other particular assigned
to the individual;
(d) the fingerprints, blood type or contact details including
telephone numbers of the individual;
(e) correspondence sent by the individual that is implicitly or
explicitly of a private or confidential nature or further
correspondence that would reveal the contents of the
original correspondence to a third party;
(f) a person’s views or opinions about another person ; and
(g) any information given in support or relation to a grant,
award or prize proposed to be made to an individual;
"processing" means performing automatically logical or
arithmetical operations on data and includes—
(a) extracting any information constituting the data; and
(b) in relation to a data processor, the use by a data controller of
data equipment in the possession of the data processor and
any other services provided by him for a data controller, but
does not include an operation performed solely for the
purpose of preparing the text of documents;
“public entity” means—
(a) any public office, as defined in Article 260 of the
Constitution; or
(b) any entity performing a function within a commission,
office, agency or other body established under the
Constitution;
“record” in relation to an agency, means a document or any other
source of information compiled, recorded or stored in written form,
on film, by electronic process or in any other manner or a record
made or kept by a person acting under the authority of law or
exercising other official function; and
“secretary” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the
Commission on Administrative Justice Act, 2011.
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