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The CBSA will only disclose API and PNR information where the proposed recipients undertake to afford it the same protections which are afforded to the information by the CBSA. Canadian government recipients of PNR information are also bound by the requirements of the Privacy Act to the extent they are listed in the Schedule to this act. The Privacy Act applies to personal information which is information about an identifiable individual, recorded in any form, and under the control of a Canadian federal government department or agency subject to the Act. Such a department or agency is precluded from collecting any personal information unless it ‘relates directly to an operating program or activity of the institution’.