ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT (SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003) (b) the person's race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religious or political beliefs or associations; (c) the person's age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status or family status; (d) an identifying number, symbol or other particulars assigned to that person; (e) fingerprints, blood type or inheritable characteristics; (f) information about a person’s health care history, including a physical or mental disability; (g) information about educational, financial, criminal or employment history; (h) anyone else’s opinions about the individual; and (i) the individual’s personal views or opinions, except if they are about someone else; (j) personal correspondence, home and family; “personal information bank” means a collection of personal information that is organised or retrievable by the name of an individual or by an identifying number, symbol or other particular assigned to that individual and includes personal images; “prescribe” means prescribe by regulations made in terms of section ninety-one; “press card” means a document issued to a journalist in terms of section seventy-nine; “public body” means any body prescribed as a public body in terms of the first column of the Second Schedule to this Act. “record” includes books, documents, maps, drawings, photographs, letters, vouchers, papers and any other thing on which information is recorded or stored by graphic, electronic, mechanical or other means, but does not include a computer programme or any other mechanism that produces records; “third party”, in relation to a request for access to a record or for correction of personal information, means any person, group of persons or organisation other than the person who made the request; “trade secret” means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, programme, device, product, method, technique or process, that is used, or may be used, in business or for any commercial advantage and— (a) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to the public or to other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and (b) is the subject of reasonable efforts to prevent it from becoming generally known; and (c) the disclosure of which would result in harm or improper benefit. (2) Where a mass media owner does not manage the mass media service of which he is the owner, any reference to a mass media owner in sections forty-six, sixty-six, sixty-seven, seventyone, seventy-three and eighty-six shall be construed as a reference to the mass media service. 8