From the course: Understanding and Prioritizing Data Privacy (2017)
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Personally identifiable information
From the course: Understanding and Prioritizing Data Privacy (2017)
Personally identifiable information
- So I define privacy and data protection as the authorized processing of personally identifiable data according to fair principles. And we'll break all of that stuff down as we go along here, but personally identifiable information, identifying the asset under management, if you will, is really crucial to success. The standard definition is information that can alone, or, in combination with another data element, describe a discrete individual. Well there's a few analogies here that are very helpful, I think. So the name Michelle may or may not be private information, it's just a name. The name Michelle applied to this human carbon-based unit is now intellectual property, it's private, it's personally identifiable. Now notice that I tell people all the time what my name is. I share my business card, I'm on LinkedIn. I do all those good things. Secrecy is not central to the definition of personally identifiable…
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