Personally Identifiable Information Puns

(I live in Oregon, in case it matters)

I read through some of my ISP's Privacy Policy today (Wave Broadband) and one section confused me. It starts out by saying (emphasis mine):

>Without your written or electronic consent, we may not collect thispersonally identifiable information about you over our cable systemunless it is necessary to render a service you receive or detectunauthorized reception of cable communications.

Okay, makes sense so far. Outside of my name/address/etc needed to render or deliver services to me, they shouldn't be allowed to collect any other data points unrelated to that purpose. But then it goes on to say:

>As permitted by the Cable Act, we may also from time to time discloselists of our subscribers to third parties for purposes other than thosereferred to above. Those lists may contain your name and address...
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>...This permits us, among other things, to disclose your name and address tocharities, advertisers, direct mail marketers and telemarketers for usein telephone or mail solicitations, market research or other purposes.You have the right to elect not to be included on such a list.

So wait, they're not allowed to collect personally identifiable information without my consent, but they are allowed to sell that information to telemarketers without my consent?

Effective immediately, in the interest of the safety and privacy of subscribers to r/witchcraft (that's you), the board is no longer allowing any Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

Do not post your name, age, or location. Country (or state if you're in the US) is fine - you can say that you're in the US or Canada, Scotland, UK, Europe, etc, but do not post your city.

This applies to meetup requests as well. Not only are you risking your own personal self, we're in the midst of a pandemic that is showing no signs of slowing down. As a general rule, you should not be meeting up with people you don't live with anyway, for your own health.

Hello!

We'd like to remind everyone that screenshots from across social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, and yes, Reddit, have to have Legal Names and Usernames redacted from them.

This is because Reddit has a rule against Harassment, and if the person in the screenshot gets harassed because of your post, Reddit will be unhappy with you.

Even if it's Proud Boys posing as you, doing the harassing, to get you in trouble.

So redact / censor the usernames and legal names from your screenshots, OK?

^(Legal names and usernames of Twitter Verified users, and Public Figures, are OK -- as long as you're not asking people to harass them. Bottom line: Harassment sucks. When in doubt, blank it out.)

^(Don't use the highlighter tool on your phone's screenshot editor / paint app. Use an opaque box or pen.)

Howdy all,

We just wanted to give a quick heads up about a new rule we've officially put on the books relating to covering/obscuring personally identifying information. This actually falls under one of reddit's sitewide rules, but it hasn't really been a problem here until recently.

Moving forward, we are going to start removing posts that include screenshots from sites like facebook, yelp, nextdoor, etc, that don't have ALL of the personal information covered. This includes full names, profile pictures, addresses etc.

These types of posts are totally fine, just as long as all PI is covered or removed.

Thanks!

https://www.themegabyte.co.uk/survey-personal-information-online/

Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA8]

This bill was referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.

Govtrack.us Summary

So a friend of mine in an investigative/surveillance company reached out and asked me about PII in commercial drones (think like high-end DJI's).

Specifically, if someone were to capture/steal/etc the drone, what could they use to trace it back to the original owner and/or origin of purchase? I'm assuming if somoene registers the drone, the serial number would be linked. But I'm not familiar with drones and wasn't sure if there were more technical ways to determine this (an embedded chip maybe?)

Any insight to this would be greatly apprecaited. Thank you!

Hi there, im experiencing issues with a banking provider revolut here in the uk, the long story short is they are blocking peoples accounts taking funds, and blocking them from seeing support via the app. Which is the only official way to contact them. Their support forums suggest asking on twitter to get the social media team to look into it. I did but they asked for information regarding my account via twitter DM such a phone number and email associated to the account. Is this breaching GDPR. Any of their social media staff can find information related to me unencrypted in twitter messages dms?

Apologies to OP. Nothing wrong with the text of the post and the responses were spot on, but the photo had the name and card number. Just seemed ripe for abuse. Sorry I didn't catch it earlier. OP is welcome to repost his question without the photo, or with the photo if the personal info has been redacted.

We're be inheriting reddit's rules around this.

> Is posting someone's private or personal information okay? > > No. Reddit is quite open and pro-free speech, but it is not okay to post someone's personal information, or post links to personal information. This includes links to public Facebook pages and screenshots of Facebook pages with the names still legible. > > We all get outraged by the ignorant things people say and do online, but witch hunts and vigilantism can hurt innocent people, and personal information found online (and elsewhere) is often false or out of date. > > Posting someone's personal information will get you banned. When posting screenshots, be sure to edit out any personally identifiable information to avoid running afoul of this rule. > > Public figures can be an exception to this rule, such as posting professional links to contact a congressman or the CEO of a company. But don't post anything inviting harassment, don't harass, and don't cheer on or upvote obvious vigilantism.

Any screenshots with names or handles legible are not allowed as per reddit rules. Please censor them before posting.

There are various exceptions to this that we'll discuss based on questions that are inevitably going to be asked here.

I've seen a number of comments in this sub where contributors post screenshots that include either their exact league position or their team names. From this information it's fairly easy to deduce your real name. If you're fine with this then there's no problem; if you're not fine with this then please remember to try and keep any information that leads back to your real identity off the internet.