Guarding personally identifiable information

Posted Jun 14, 2017 9:33 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Guarding personally identifiable information by nybble41
Parent article: Guarding personally identifiable information

It's not the same. Your gender cannot identify you; your (complete) CC# can. If you limited the data to the last two digits, for example, then that would not be the case.

Guarding personally identifiable information

Posted Jun 14, 2017 9:39 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Why would you want to limit the data of CC#s and create a dataset with them? It serves no useful purpose whatsoever.

Guarding personally identifiable information

Posted Jun 14, 2017 12:58 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

The last two digits of your CC# + your gender certainly could help narrow down your identity. It just needs a few more "non-identifying, but narrowing" dimensions of information potentially to uniquely identify you.