In the federal Privacy Act, personal information is defined as: information relating to the race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age or marital status of an individual; information relating to the education or the medical, criminal or employment history or history of financial transactions of an individual; any identifying number, symbol or other particular assigned to an individual; the address, fingerprints or blood type of an individual; the personal opinions or views of an 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 by a government; correspondence sent to a government institution by an individual that is implicitly or explicitly of a private and confidential nature, and replies to such correspondence that would reveal the contents of the original correspondence; the views or opinions of another individual about the individual; and many more categories. In PIPEDA, personal information is defined as information about an identifiable individual, but does not include the name, title, business address or telephone number of an employee of a private sector organization. March 2016