Guarding personally identifiable information
Guarding personally identifiable information
Posted Jun 19, 2017 15:01 UTC (Mon) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106)In reply to: Guarding personally identifiable information by hummassa
Parent article: Guarding personally identifiable information
> merchants and targeted advertised HAVE access to the credit cards database
Agreed, but the point still stands. You can't get anyone's shopping habits or location from just a credit card number. When combined with additional information, sure, but not from the number alone. It's not the number itself which is personal, but rather the web of connections linking the number to other (likewise individually non-personal) pieces of data.