"Business" means a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, or
other entity, however organized and whether or not organized to operate at a profit,
including a financial institution organized, chartered, or holding a license or authorization
certificate under the law of this State, any other state, the United States, or of any other
country, or the parent or the subsidiary of a financial institution.
"Communicate" means to send a written or other tangible record or to transmit a
record by any means agreed upon by the persons sending and receiving the record.
"Customer" means an individual who provides personal information to a business.
"Individual" means a natural person.
"Internet" means the international computer network of both federal and non-
federal interoperable packet switched data networks.
"Personal information" means an individual's first name or first initial and last
name linked with any one or more of the following data elements: (1) Social Security
number; (2) driver's license number or State identification card number; or (3) account
number or credit or debit card number, in combination with any required security code,
access code, or password that would permit access to an individual's financial account.
Dissociated data that, if linked, would constitute personal information is personal
information if the means to link the dissociated data were accessed in connection with
access to the dissociated data.
For the purposes of sections 10 through 15 of this amendatory and supplementary
act, personal information shall not include publicly available information that is lawfully
made available to the general public from federal, state or local government records, or
widely distributed media.
"Private entity" means any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, or other entity, other than a public entity.
"Public entity" includes the State, and any county, municipality, district, public
authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or public body in the State.
For the purposes of sections 10 through 15 of this amendatory and supplementary act,
public entity does not include the federal government.
"Publicly post" or "publicly display" means to intentionally communicate or
otherwise make available to the general public.
"Records" means any material, regardless of the physical form, on which
information is recorded or preserved by any means, including written or spoken words,
graphically depicted, printed, or electromagnetically transmitted. Records does not
include publicly available directories containing information an individual has voluntarily
consented to have publicly disseminated or listed.