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Private Sector Privacy - Legislation - Personal Information Protection Act - Section 14 - Collection without consent

Personal Information Protection Act, S.A. 2003, c. P-6.5

Part 2: Protection of Personal Information
Division 3: Collection of Personal Information
Section 14: Collection without consent
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14. An organization may collect personal information about an individual without the consent of that individual but only if one or more of the following are applicable:

(a) a reasonable person would consider that the collection of the information is clearly in the interests of the individual and consent of the individual cannot be obtained in a timely way or the individual would not reasonably be expected to withhold consent;

(b) the collection of the information is pursuant to a statute or regulation of Alberta or Canada that authorizes or requires the collection;

(c) he collection of the information is from a public body and that public body is authorized or required by an enactment of Alberta or Canada to disclose the personal information to the organization;

(d) the collection of the information is reasonable for the purposes of an investigation or a legal proceeding;

(e) the information is publicly available;

(f) the collection of the information is necessary to determine the individual’s suitability to receive an honour, award or similar benefit, including an honorary degree, scholarship or bursary;

(g) the information is collected by a credit reporting organization to create a credit report where the individual consented to the disclosure to the credit reporting organization by the organization that originally collected the information;

(h) the information may be disclosed to the organization without the consent of the individual under section 20;

(i) the collection of the information is necessary in order to collect a debt owed to the organization or for the organization to repay to the individual money owed by the organization;

(j) the organization collecting the information is an archival institution and the collection of the information is reasonable for archival purposes or research;

(k) the collection of the information meets the requirements respecting archival purposes or research set out in the regulations and it is not reasonable to obtain the consent of the individual whom the information is about.

2003 cP-6.5 s14

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