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PII
Personally identifiable information is data that can identify or be linked to a person, alone or in combination with other information. Names are only one signal. Replacing names with case numbers does not by itself establish anonymity or make a dataset appropriate to share with an AI service.
Also called: Personally Identifiable Information
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