PII stands for “personally identifiable information.” And personally identifiable information can mean an assortment of things, such as name, address, social security number and biometric data, like ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Alan Chapell, president at Chapell & ...

When you visit a website, the website will likely acquire some basic information about you, such as IP address, the operating system on your computer, the browser you are using, the ISP you used to ...

Enhancing personally identifiable information (or PII) privacy is no longer an afterthought; it’s a fundamental component in an enterprise, just like data security and backup. Therefore, isolating PII ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Carla Holtze, CEO and co-founder of ...

On the last Thursday in June this year, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Consumer Privacy Act. Although not due to go into effect until January 2020, its ...

A publicly accessible Elasticsearch database discovered on March 27 exposed various types of personally identifiable information (PII) and medical info of more than 100,000 individuals. Security ...

Companies that are looking to sell, transfer or buy personally identifiable information (“PII”) via bankruptcy asset sales would be wise to confirm that such a transfer is consistent with the debtor’s ...

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation requires companies to protect the privacy of their EU customers. That means keeping personally identifiable information (PII) safe. Here's what you need to ...