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> There are people who argue that just the name of a person is PII and they are wrong. > ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or ide
by Kuinox 3y ago
> There are people who argue that just the name of a person is PII and they are wrong.
> ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, [...]
https://gdpr.eu/article-4-definitions/ https://gdpr.eu/article-4-definitions/
A name is PII, as stated by the definitions in the GDPR.
- carlosjobim 3y agoYou're misunderstanding. The name by itself is not personal data, but data connected to a name is.
- ceejayoz 3y ago"in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name" What is there to misunderstand?
- carlosjobim 3y agoIf I write a name on a piece of paper here on my desk, I have not violated GDPR. If the radio commentator speaks the name of the soccer player who made a pass, he has not violated GDPR. But there are people who argue that names by themselves (without reference to anything else) are protected personal identification data. Which they clearly are not.
- Kuinox 3y agoThank you for demonstrating you have no idea what the GDPR is.
- carlosjobim 3y agoThank you for your sarcastic comment.
- ceejayoz 3y agoThe GDPR's scope is defined as: "This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means and to the processing other than by automated means of personal data which form part of a filing system or are intended to form part of a filing system." A name or email in Kagi's database is very clearly subject to GDPR. A note on your desk may not be; not because the name isn't PII, but because not all PII is in a protected context. You're incorrectly mixing up "it's not PII" with "it's not subject to GDPR". It's still PII even if you're not legally required to protect it in a specific scenario; I can, for example, tell random people about my wife's very unique medical conditions, but her hospital cannot.