PII
Sensitive identity data
PII stands for personally identifiable information—data that can identify a specific individual.
This includes obvious identifiers like names, Social Security numbers, and addresses, but also less obvious ones: IP addresses, biometric data, or combinations of details that together pinpoint someone.
The term appears constantly in privacy policies, data breach notifications, and compliance discussions: The leak exposed PII of 50 million users.
Converting data into code
- anonymizationRemoving identifying information
- pseudonymizationSubstituting identifiers with artificial ones
- tokenizationConverting input into discrete units
- redactionObscuring sensitive text
State of being unprotected
- leakEscape through a breach
- theftUnlawful taking of property
- compromiseAgreement through mutual sacrifice
- phishingFraudulent credential harvesting
negligence · misconfiguration · ransomware · notification · remediation
encryption
Converting data into code
- anonymizationRemoving identifying information
- pseudonymizationSubstituting identifiers with artificial ones
- tokenizationConverting input into discrete units
redaction · hashing · de-identification · compartmentalization
exposure
State of being unprotected
- leakEscape through a breach
- theftUnlawful taking of property
- compromiseAgreement through mutual sacrifice
phishing · negligence · misconfiguration · ransomware · notification · remediation
birthdate
Day of birth
- fingerprintFriction ridge impression
- geolocationDigital position identification
GDPR
EU data protection law
- Business AcronymsSKU, UPC, CEO, COO, POS
- private dataSSN, passwords, password, PHI, personal data
- identifiersidentifier, title, rank, license, permit
- security levelsclassified, confidential, restricted, secret, top secret
Accessible-to-all data