Understanding your privacy rights

Personal information is information that is recorded about you, such as your name, address, financial information, or education history. You have a right to privacy. New Brunswick public bodies must protect your rights by following rules when collecting, using, and disclosing your personal information.

Personal information is recorded information about an identifiable individual.
Some examples include:

• Name, age, gender
• Home address, phone number, email
• Sexual orientation, marital status, and family status
• Personal health information such as a physical disability or health care history
• Religion
• Education
• Financial information
• Employment information
• Personal views and opinions, except if they are about someone else

Information privacy is the right to have control over your own personal information. RTIPPA sets out your information privacy rights when dealing with public bodies.

You have a right to privacy. To protect that right, New Brunswick public bodies are required by law to protect your personal information. They must follow rules when collecting, using, and disclosing your personal information. You have the right to:

• Request access to your own personal information
• Ask that your information be corrected by a public body if your information is incorrect
• Understand why a public body is collecting your information, how it will be protected and used, and who it is disclosed to
• Know the policies and practices a public body has in place to handle your personal information
• Make a complaint to the public body and the Ombud if you are not satisfied with a public body’s privacy practices