[bearl]

Links to pii are by far the worst sort of pii, yes.

“It’s not his actual money, it’s just his bank account and routing number.”

[djoldman]

A more accurate analogy is "it's not his actual money, it's a link to a webpage or image that has his bank account and routing number."

[bearl]

My contention is that links to pii are themselves pii.

A name, Jon Smith, is technically PII but not very specific. If I have a link to a specific Jon Smith’s facebook page or his HN profile, it’s even more personally identifiable than knowing his name is Jon Smith.

[Ferret7446]

That is crazy. The target of a link could change, which means that all links are Schroedinger's PII.

And if a link to PII is PII, then a link to a link to PII is PII, and thus all links are PII unless it links to the dark (unlinked) Web

[atemerev]

Well yes, by knowing my bank account and routing number, you don't have access to my money.

[Cheer2171]

You do in the US.

[atemerev]

That sounds insecure. Looks like blockchain and private keys with extra hops. Perhaps you can easily revert banking transactions...