“person” includes a public body;
“personal information” means information about an identifiable individual, including, but not limited
to—
(a) information relating to the race, gender, pregnancy, marital status, nationality, ethnic or social
origin, colour, age, physical or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, belief, culture, language and
birth of the individual;
(b) information relating to the education or the medical, criminal or employment history of the
individual, or information relating to financial transactions in which the individual has been involved;
(c) any identifying number, symbol, or other particular assigned to the individual;
(d) the address, fingerprints or blood type of the individual;
(e) the personal opinions, views or preferences of the individual, except where they are about
another individual or about a proposal for a grant, an award or a prize to be made to another individual;
(f) 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;
(g) the views or opinions of another individual about the individual;
(h) the views or opinions of another individual about a proposal for a grant, an award or a prize to
be made to the individual, but excluding the name of the other individual where it appears with the
views or opinions of the other individual; and
(i) the name of the individual where it appears with other personal information relating to the
individual or where the disclosure of the name itself would reveal information about the individual, but
excludes information about an individual who has been dead for more than twenty years;
“private body” means—
(a) a natural person who carries, or has carried on, any trade, business or profession, but only in
such capacity;
(b) a partnership which carries, or has carried on, any trade, business or profession; or
(c) any former or existing juristic person, other than a public body;
“plain text” means decrypted or unencrypted data;
“pornography” means material that visually depicts images of a person engaged in explicit sexual
conduct;
“public body” means—
(a) any department of the Government or any local authority; or
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