Definition

personally identifiable information (PII)

Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data about an individual that could, potentially identify that person, such as a name, fingerprints or other biometric data, email address, street address, telephone number or social security number. A subset of PII is PIFI (personally identifiable financial information).

This was last updated in February 2008
Posted by: Margaret Rouse

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