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            • January 26, 2006

              PII and Criminal Records

            • Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Personally Identifiable Information and Online Services

              Interesting piece by Dare, and definitely an important read. The only thing that has me scratching my head comes from his reference to the wikipedia entry of Personally Identifiable Information:

              Criminal record

              Obviously this question is directed towards the Wikipdia article:

              How is a criminal record not PII?

              I can see the point that a lot of people can and have committed the same crime, and as such knowing just the crime doesn't necessarily connect the person to the specific instance of a crime. But who does random Criminal Background Checks? If you're running a CBC you're doing it for a specific reason, right?

              I can see a researcher doing a study on a particular crime, attempting, for example, to pinpoint a surge in a particular crime being committed and attempting to find reason for the surge. But that would seem to be the exception as opposed to the rule.

              I'm not suggesting that a Criminal Record is *ABSOLUTELY* not PII, I'm just having a hard time seeing the justification.

              Anybody wanna help me out here?

            • Posted by m.david : January 26, 2006 10:07 PM GMT

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