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by andrewcooke 4890 days ago
i think PII is publicly identifying information (a public identity)?
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coin 4890 days ago
I dislike abbreviations for this exact reason. Both your and the above responses are different. Clearly it's not well known abbreviation.
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zellyn 4890 days ago
Personally Identifying Information. It's pretty common to anyone who works with PII. Also the top Google search result for PII.
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andrewcooke 4890 days ago
sorry, i probably shouldn't have replied. difficult to know whether the context is "quickly help me understand what this means" or "give me a precise answer", but for the web, with a technical audience, i should lean more towards the latter...
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