Comment by hanoz
3 years ago
Okay, massive tangent, but it's been bugging me for a while and this has finally tipped me over the edge - why is it called personally identifiable information? That would be information that someone can personally identify surely? Shouldn't it be personally identifying information?
Words mean whatever people who use them intend them to mean.
Because it's information that may be able to identify, but is not necessarily conclusively identifying of, a person.