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Information Security

Questions tagged [pii]

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Is Credit Score considered regulatory PII? [on hold]

I Operate an EComm company and we're investigating allowing for financing on our products. A part of that is that we may need to receive credit scores at least in transit from Equifax, Experian, etc. ...
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Do security breach victims have any meaningful recourse?

OPM Breach Anthem Health Care Equifax The list goes on... If we define meaningful as non-monetary compensation (e.g. services) to protect victims from further victimization stemming from loss of ...
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Can you tell me if my design is secure?

I'm designing a database interface for a system that could store PII. My first focus is on making sure all the data is secure, to do this I have designed the system as follows. I'm running three ...
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Are employee or badge numbers PII?

We're looking at implementing an Identity Management/Lifecycle system. We're looking at aggregating all our authentication into this system. However, one area of concern is same-name employees, so ...
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Do S3/Azure/GCS bucket names/keys represent personally identifiable information

We have an event-sourced system that uses a forward-only immutable event store. If we store personally identifiable information in this store, we'll be in trouble with regards to GDPR, as deletion ...
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Is a standalone phone number considered Personally Identifiable Information?

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is defined (the example below is from NIST) as (emphasis mine) Information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as ...
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Tokenization - Is it bad practice to reuse tokens?

If I am implementing a tokenization system for PII within a database, is it considered bad practice, or riskier, to reuse tokens? For example, if I am storing the name "Richard" multiple times, and ...
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Is gender considered PII (Personally Identifiable Information) under the GDPR?

Since GDPR is shaking everything up at the minute I'm working on a few changes to our website/process. I work in eCommerce in UX (UK based) and support marketing teams with certain activities. My ...
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How to securely collect email addresses through a third party website

I would like to collect email addresses through a third party website and subscribe them to a Sendgrid mailing list. Flow: User goes to a website hosted by unbounce.com that uses my website's ...
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Secure, Portable Bookmarks

A constant bugbear is my bookmarks being synced to my Google accounts, meaning access to them outside that Google account requires various manual steps. So it got me thinking of a roll your own way ...
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DLP Tool for requirement [closed]

Is there any DLP tool with default policies to comply with south african laws and regulations on PII ?
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How can I prove that I adhere to stated privacy policy? What audits are effective for voluntary compliance?

I have a website and mobile app that doesn't store data or PII. Suppose I'm not subject to any special privacy laws. How can I voluntarily submit myself to an audit to ensure that I'm acting true to ...
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Data Masking in a database [closed]

Background The development team is receiving production data (as Database backup files) in order to fix bugs and application enhancements. The Development team restore these backups in their ...