PII
acronymprivacygovernance & risk
Stands for: Personally Identifiable Information
Any data that can identify a specific person, on its own or combined with other data.
Personally Identifiable Information covers the obvious (name, national ID) and the combinable (a birth date plus a postcode). Regulations like GDPR are built around protecting it, and data minimization is the discipline of not collecting what you do not need.
Also known as: pii, personal data, personally identifiable information