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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 02:02:27 JST Rich Felker

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   • Jeff Atwood
   • pgcd
   • Marcus Bointon
   • Ashley Rolfmore (leymoo)

   @Synchro @leymoo @pgcd @codinghorror Also: personal data at scale inherently becomes identifying.

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     Marcus Bointon (synchro@phpc.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Sep-2025 02:02:28 JST Marcus Bointon

     • Jeff Atwood
     • pgcd
     • Ashley Rolfmore (leymoo)

     @leymoo @pgcd @codinghorror @dalias An example I've used in conf talks about this is that the colour red by itself is neither PII nor personal data. But if it's stored as your favourite colour, it *is* personal data, though it's still not PII.
     It's very hard to define PII well – it ends up in star-bellied sneetch territory