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The Data Protection Bill, 2018

"data controller" means a person who, either alone or
together with other persons, controls the contents and use
of personal information;
"data subject" means a person from whom personal
data is obtained;
"disclosure", in relation to personal information,
includes the disclosure of information extracted from such
data and the transfer of such data but does not include a
disclosure made directly or indirectly by a data controller
or a data processor to an employee or agent of his for the
purpose of enabling the employee or agent to carry out his
duties and, where the identification of a data subject
depends partly on the data and partly on other information
in the possession of the data controller, the data shall not be
considered as disclosed unless the other information is also
disclosed;
"exempt information" means information that may be
withheld by a public entity or a private body in accordance
with section 6 of the Access to Information Act;

No.31 of 2016.

"person" has the meaning assigned to it under Article
260 of the Constitution;
"personal data" means information about a person,
includinginformation relating to the race, gender, sex,
pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social
origin, colour, age, physical or mental health, wellbeing, disability, religion, conscience, belief,
culture, language and birth of the individual;
information relating to the education, medical,
criminal or employment history of the person or
information relating to financial transactions in
which the person has been involved in;
an identif\jing number, symbol or other particular
assigned to the individual;
the fingerprints or blood type of the person;
contact details including telephone numbers of the
person;
correspondence by a person that is implicitly or
explicitly of a private or confidential nature or

No. 14 of 2011.

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