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> ... cannot be PII because multiple people may use that IP. I think such reasoning is a little unfortunate. Multiple people share my name. Multiple people c
by clarry 8y ago
> ... cannot be PII because multiple people may use that IP.
I think such reasoning is a little unfortunate.
Multiple people share my name. Multiple people could live in or visit my household.
So is my name and address not PII?
I don't think that underlining all the cases where some given bit of information may fail to identify a person is the right approach when it comes to making a blanket statement about whether said info is PII. I don't think courts would follow that reasoning either, especially when there will be lots and lots of counterexamples where following that trail of information leads to facts that most people would conclude as identifying a person exactly (at least with a very high degree of certainty).