The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, in accordance with section 87.1 of Alberta's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, is providing a directory of personal information banks (PIBs) in use. Personal information banks are any collections of personal information about individuals that are organized or retrievable by the name of the individual or by an identifying number, symbol or other particular assigned to an individual.
The PIB Directory lists the following for each personal information bank:
- Name of the PIB.
- Name of the Department where the PIB is located.
- What types of personal information is maintained in the PIB.
- Who the PIB is about.
- Purpose for which the personal information is collected or used.
- Legal authority for collecting the personal information.
- Whether the personal information is in hard copy or electronic format (or both).