On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Barry Leiba wrote:

>>> [Page 5] Section 5, "..access to personally identifying information..", do
>>> you mean "..access to identifiable personal information" ?
>> 
>> Looking at draft-iab-privacy-considerations, I think "personal data" might
>> be best.
> 
> Maybe.  But "PII" is a term of art, and it means something different
> to (and more specific than) "personal data".  I'm not sure whether the
> change is the right answer in the full context of the paragraph:
> 
>   Protocols that make use of 'acct' URIs are responsible for defining
>   security considerations related to such usage, e.g., the risks
>   involved in dereferencing an 'acct' URI and the authentication and
>   authorization methods that could be used to control access to
>   personally identifying information associated with a user's account
>   at a service.
> 
> I suppose, as I mull it over, that changing to "personal data"
> probably *is* right.  But people should speak up if they think
> otherwise.

Yes, I think "personal data" is what we really mean here, not personally 
identifiable information (such as IP addresses and mother's maiden name).

Peter

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