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Personally Identifiable Information

Personally Identifiable Information (PII), as used in information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. The abbreviation PII is widely accepted, but the phrase it abbreviates has four common variants based on personal, personally, identifiable, and identifying.

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Here’s how face recognition tech can be GDPR compliant

  • Parth Misra
  • 6 years ago
Is Tim Cook the champion of privacy?
  • Business

Is Tim Cook the champion of privacy?

  • Gary Eastwood
  • 6 years ago
Facebook fined 0.001% of its 2017 revenue for Cambridge Analytica scandal
  • Facebook

Facebook fined 0.001% of its 2017 revenue for Cambridge Analytica scandal

  • Már Másson Maack
  • 6 years ago

The free internet makes us the product — we need to stop it
  • Facebook

The free internet makes us the product — we need to stop it

  • Mark Rolston
  • 6 years ago
Here’s how to keep advertisers from using your phone number on Facebook
  • Facebook

Here’s how to keep advertisers from using your phone number on Facebook

  • Bryan Clark
  • 6 years ago
Google and Mastercard are secretly tracking your offline purchases
  • Privacy

Google and Mastercard are secretly tracking your offline purchases

  • Bryan Clark
  • 7 years ago
EU suggests law to stop Cambridge Analytica-style election meddling
  • User (computing)

EU suggests law to stop Cambridge Analytica-style election meddling

  • Már Másson Maack
  • 7 years ago
GDPR is eroding our privacy, not protecting it
  • Business

GDPR is eroding our privacy, not protecting it

  • Mindaugas Kiskis
  • 7 years ago
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  • Security

4 practical tips to verify if your customers are who they say they are

  • Jamie Tolentino
  • 7 years ago
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