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Personally Identifiable Information

nounid 3571·updated May 9, 2026
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Any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including (1) any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual‘s identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother‘s maiden name, or biometric records; and (2) any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial, and employment information.

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Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems4 citations · 4 defined by this document · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
3.2.1 ¶ 4903.03.08.b ¶ 13.2.1 ¶ 503.2.2 ¶ 66

Classifications

Entity Type

Data92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

Regulated93%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Pii95%rule-basedr:info.pii.named.v1

Variants

acronym
PII
synonym
Personal Identification Information
possessive
Personally Identifiable Information's

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 22 sensesview framework →
§1
Information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as their name, social security number, biometric records, etc., alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, mother’s maiden name, etc.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review
Any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including (1) any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual‘s identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother‘s maiden name, or biometric records; and (2) any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial, and employment information.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Information which can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as their name, social security number, biometric records, etc., alone, or when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual, such as date and place of birth, mother’s maiden name, etc.
NIST SP 800-1221 senseview framework →
§1
Any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including (1) any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual‘s identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother‘s maiden name, or biometric records; and (2) any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial, and employment information.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · acronym list
PII: Personally Identifiable Information
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (acronym list)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including (1) any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual‘s identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother‘s maiden name, or biometric records; and (2) any other information that is linked or linkable to an individual, such as medical, educational, financial, and employment information.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

Incoming relationships