§ 4-1-6-1 — Definitions

As used in this chapter:
(1) "Personal information system" means any recordkeeping
process, whether automated or manual, containing personal
information and the name, personal number, or other identifying
particulars of a data subject.
(2) "Personal information" means any information that describes,
locates, or indexes anything about an individual or that affords a basis
for inferring personal characteristics about an individual including, but
not limited to, the individual's education, financial transactions,
medical history, criminal or employment records, finger and voice
prints, photographs, or the individual's presence, registration, or
membership in an organization or activity or admission to an
institution.
(3) "Data subject" means an individual about whom personal
information is indexed or may be located under the individual's name,
personal number, or other identifiable particulars, in a personal
information system.
(4) "State agency" means every agency, board, commission,
department, bureau, or other entity of the administrative branch of
Indiana state government, except those which are the responsibility of
the state comptroller, treasurer of state, secretary of state, attorney
general, and excepting the department of state police and state
educational institutions.
(5) "Confidential" means information which has been so designated
by statute or by promulgated rule or regulation based on statutory
authority.
As added by Acts 1977, P.L.21, SEC.1. Amended by Acts 1978,
P.L.10, SEC.1; P.L.19-1983, SEC.1; P.L.2-2007, SEC.17;
P.L.215-2016, SEC.2; P.L.219-2017, SEC.7; P.L.8-2019, SEC.6;
P.L.43-2021, SEC.5; P.L.9-2024, SEC.27.