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Personal Identity Verification Card

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

Physical artifact (e.g., identity card, “smart” card) issued to an individual that contains stored identity credentials (e.g., photograph, cryptographic keys, digitized fingerprint representation, etc.) such that a claimed identity of the cardholder may be verified against the stored credentials by another person (human-readable and verifiable) or an automated process (computer-readable and verifiable).

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Classifications

Entity Type

Physical95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Regulated92%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 Card
plural
Personal Identity Verification Cards
possessive
Personal Identity Verification Card's
pluralpossessive
Personal Identity Verification Cards'