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Personal Identity Verification

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

The process of creating and using a governmentwide secure and reliable form of identification for federal employees and contractors, in support of HSPD 12, Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors.

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Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

Regulated95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

Cui85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

acronym
PIV
plural
Personal Identity Verifications
possessive
Personal Identity Verification's
pluralpossessive
Personal Identity Verifications'