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Okay, massive tangent, but it's been bugging me for a while and this has finally tipped me over the edge - why is it called personally identifiable information?
by hanoz 3y ago
Okay, massive tangent, but it's been bugging me for a while and this has finally tipped me over the edge - why is it called personally identifiable information? That would be information that someone can personally identify surely? Shouldn't it be personally identifying information?
- TheSpiceIsLife 3y agoWords mean whatever people who use them intend them to mean.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- ynx 3y agoBecause it's information that may be able to identify, but is not necessarily conclusively identifying of, a person.