[22nd December 2023]
REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES
Data Protection Act
SUPPLEMENT TO OFFICIAL GAZETTE
633
ACT
natural person and which result, in particular, from an analysis of
a biological sample from the natural person in question;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for information;
“personal data” means any information relating to an identified
or identifiable natural person;
“processing” means an operation involving collection, recording,
structuring or storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval,
consultation or use, disclosure by transmission,dissemination or
otherwise making available, alignment or combination, or
restriction, erasure or destruction;
“personal data breach” means an unauthorized access and
retrieval of personal information by an individual, group of
persons, or software system or a breach of security leading to the
accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised
disclosure of or access to personal data transmitted, stored or
otherwise processed;
“profiling” means automated processing of personal data
consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal
aspects relating to a natural person, and in particular to analyse or
predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at
work, economic situation, health, preferences, interests,
reliability, location or movements;
“sensitive personal data” means personal data related to the most
private areas of the data subject’s life, or whose misuse might
lead to discrimination or involve a serious risk for the data
subject;
“third party” means a natural or legal person, public authority,
agency or body that is authorised to process personal data; and
“traffic data” means any computer data relating to a
communication by means of a computer system generated by a
computer system that formed a part in the chain of