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- How-to not log personally identifiable information http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/how-to-not-log-personally-identifiable-information.html 2 comments
- Google: New options for removing your personally-identifiable information from Search https://blog.google/products/search/new-options-for-removing-your-personally-identifiable-information-from-search/ 49 comments privacy
- What is PII - Personally Identifiable Information? https://original.newsbreak.com/@openclassactions-com-1602283/2939908694976-what-is-pii-personally-identifiable-information?s=ws_rd 3 comments privacy
- How do you prevent sending "Personally Identifiable Information" (PII) to Google Analytics? https://whatever.com/newsletter/complete?email=joe%40crow.com 5 comments wordpress
- PiiString .NET type for personally identifiable information (PII) https://gaevoy.com/2022/03/18/personally-identifiable-information-data-types.html 13 comments dotnet
- Experian sells thousands of Personal Identifiable Information to ID thieves in Singapore http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/can-we-trust-the-data-brokers-who-store-our-most-intimate-private-details/ 5 comments worldnews
- What information is "personally identifiable"? http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/what-information-personally-identifiable 14 comments technology
- Age Verification Systems Will Be a Personal Identifiable Information Nightmare https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/age-verification-systems-will-be-a-personal-identifiable-information-nightmare/ 46 comments technology
- Location Data = Personally Identifiable Information https://consciousdigital.org/location-data-is-personally-identifiable-information/ 2 comments technology
- Location Data = Personally Identifiable Information https://consciousdigital.org/location-data-is-personally-identifiable-information/ 7 comments privacy
- PII Redaction: Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now provides enhanced controls for redacting personal identifiable information https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/12/amazon-connect-contact-lens-enhanced-controls-redacting-personal-information/ 3 comments aws
- "Google Public DNS does not permanently store personally identifiable information" http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html 8 comments technology
- Open source tool to use ChatGPT without leaking personal identifiable information https://github.com/mediar-ai/screenpipe/blob/main/examples/python/local-llm-pii-removal/README.md 3 comments privacy
- A USAF Commander sent an SA victims personally identifiable information, including her full SSN, date of birth, place of birth, current address, etc, to the man she accused of assaulting her – They aren’t going to tell her. None 3 comments airforce
- A USAF Commander sent an SA victims personally identifiable information, including her full SSN, date of birth, place of birth, current address, etc, to the man she accused of assaulting her – They aren’t going to tell her. None 9 comments airforce
- Lawsuit filed in Atlanta U.S. District Court faults Equifax for “gargantuan failures to secure and safeguard consumers’ personally identifiable information … and for failing to provide timely, accurate and adequate notice” http://www.ajc.com/business/former-gov-roy-barnes-others-file-equifax-data-breach-class-action/x1byrfcdw2abakxpferrbl/ 1833 comments technology
- How India Govt. exposed half a million records with Personally Identifiable Information https://secvibe.com/how-an-india-govt-854083d8ff71 25 comments india
- Kryptowire Discovered Mobile Phone Firmware That Transmitted Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Without User Consent Or Disclosure http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kryptowire-discovered-mobile-phone-firmware-that-transmitted-personally-identifiable-information-pii-without-user-consent-or-disclosure-300362844.html 9 comments netsec
- Facebook education software spurs privacy fears - "I'm not comfortable with having my kids' personally identifiable information going to I don't even know where, to be used for I'm not sure what," http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2016/10/facebook_education_privacy_fea.html 28 comments privacy
- Conflicting information about Mozilla Ion and their data collection on personally identifying information https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/jn4288/conflicting_information_about_mozilla_ion_and/ 5 comments firefox
- Local Sheriff: browser extension to track what personally identifiable information (PII) is being leaked... (From @KKM on HackerNews) https://github.com/cliqz-oss/local-sheriff 9 comments technology
- SEBI & MCA are causing a massive Personally Identifiable Information Leak https://medium.com/@terminalfix/sebi-mca-are-causing-a-massive-personally-identifiable-information-leak-40eed879d568 4 comments india
- Facebook has become a photo identification database. Paired with related research, we’re looking at the prospect where good, bad and ugly actors will be able identify a face in a crowd and know sensitive personal information about that person. http://blogs.forbes.com/chunkamui/2011/08/08/facebooks-privacy-issues-are-even-deeper-than-we-knew/ 3 comments reddit.com
- The Interstate Doxing Prevention Act creates a single, clear cut federal prohibition on the use of the interstate telecommunications system to place another person in fear of death or serious bodily injury by knowingly publishing their personally identifiable information. http://katherineclark.house.gov/index.cfm/press-releases?id=845879be-5c95-4115-a5ed-a4bd79ca611b 7 comments politics
- Facebook education software spurs privacy fears – “I’m not comfortable with having my kids’ personally identifiable information going to I don’t even know where, to be used for I’m not sure what”. http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2016/10/facebook_education_privacy_fea.html 20 comments technology
- British spy unit reportedly hit Anonymous with DDoS attacks - The unit's infiltration of IRC chat rooms helped identify hackers who had stolen confidential information from Web sites and sent one person to prison for the theft of data from PayPal, according to the documents http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57618376-38/british-spy-unit-reportedly-hit-anonymous-with-ddos-attacks/ 18 comments worldnews
- Remember those 12 MILLION Unique Device Identifiers and other personal information that the "FBI" stole? Turns out that it wasn't them at all, but was hacked from a private company that legally obtained all the information. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/technology/company-says-it-not-fbi-was-hacking-victim.html 6 comments technology
- Every Single American Household Exposed in Massive Leak | Yet another cloud storage misconfiguration has exposed personally identifiable information (PII), according to researchers - this time affecting 123 million Americans across billions of data points https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/every-single-american-household 7 comments technology
- Bose headphones spy on listeners and sell personally identifiable information to third parties without permission: Lawsuit http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/bose-headphones-spy-on-listeners-lawsuit-1683707 2132 comments technology
- "Mandatory SIM card registration laws require people to provide personal information, including a valid ID or even their biometrics, as a condition for purchasing or activating a SIM card. Such a requirement allows the state to identify the owner... at any given time." https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/3018/timeline-sim-card-registration-laws 108 comments privacy
- New Jersey is latest state to introduce internet privacy bill to protect your personally identifiable information https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/05/new-jersey-latest-state-introduce-internet-privacy-bill-protect-personally-identifiable-information/ 5 comments politics
- New Jersey is latest state to introduce internet privacy bill to protect your personally identifiable information https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/05/new-jersey-latest-state-introduce-internet-privacy-bill-protect-personally-identifiable-information/ 59 comments technology
- Saudi Arabia has announed plans to introduce electronic identification bracelets for all pilgrims heading to Mecca as part of a safety drive. Containing personal and medical information, the e-bracelets will help authorities provide care and identify people http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/saudi-arabia-introduces-bracelets-hajj-safety-160630131905794.html 4 comments worldnews
- New analysis by Stanford computer scientists shows that it is possible to identify a person’s private information – such as health details – from telephone metadata alone. Additionally, following metadata “hops” from one person’s communications can involve thousands of other people. https://news.stanford.edu/2016/05/16/stanford-computer-scientists-show-telephone-metadata-can-reveal-surprisingly-sensitive-personal-information/ 20 comments science
- AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much they earn: Large language models such as GPT-4 were able to identify people’s personal information by analysing their posts on social media https://www.newscientist.com/article/2400514-ais-can-guess-where-reddit-users-live-and-how-much-they-earn/ 40 comments technology
- CISPA is Back: FAQ on What it is and Why it's Still Dangerous -- It allows "companies to identify and obtain 'threat information' by looking at your private information...it allows companies to hand over large swaths of personal information to the government with no judicial oversight" https://www.eff.org/cybersecurity-bill-faq 18 comments technology
- Important law in Massachusetts passed: If you have personally identifiable information (PII) about a Massachusetts resident, such as a first and last name, then you have to encrypt that data on the wire and as it’s persisted. http://www.sqlmag.com/print/sql-server/a-new-law-that-will-change-the-way-you-build-database-applications.aspx 32 comments netsec