What is a Personal Information Bank (PIB)?
” The appellant’s reply was : “It is a database or type of information about an identifiable person.” Successful candidate Cannon had been allocated a mark for a very similar answer : “A PIB contains information about an individual that has been collected by a government agency for a specific purpose.” 3. Third ranked candidate Cannon should not have been found qualified. The marks Ms. Cannon was allotted for her answers to knowledge questions 3, 6, 8, 10, 14, 15 and 21 and for abilities question 29 were not merited. Question 3, the expected answer and the appellant’s reply were as follows: What is the Privacy Act and describe its purpose. Expected Answer One mark each for identifying that it is a Federal Act applies to Federal Institutions, provides individuals right of access to records containing personal information about themselves and protects the privacy of individuals with respect to personal information held by Government institution. Ms. Cannon’s Reply Privacy Act is a legisl
