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AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles
Course: AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles > Unit 7
Lesson 2: PII (Personally identifiable information)(PII) Personally Identifiable Information
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) includes things that can identify you directly, such as your social security number, to things that may help identify you indirectly, such as your phone number or birthday. If that information falls into the wrong hands, you could be tracked without your knowledge or even have your identity stolen. Created by Sal Khan.
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- - 0:00Imagine if you told that to a stranger in real life... 😬 0:10(8 votes)
- 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣bro he's lying(1 vote)
- to add to- 0:40if they get your house address, they could come and uh unalive you 0:52(10 votes)
- i know what you mean by "unalive"(1 vote)
- what is Personally Identifiable Information(2 votes)
- A type of information that can Identify you EG: name password address social security number etc(7 votes)
- Bro I feel sad for the guy whose social security number is 857325567 because now we no his number.(5 votes)
- 0;00 -thx bozo my info now 0:10(2 votes)
- What could be legitimate, legal reasons to give someone your PII? Obviously hospitals would need your real info...(1 vote)
- A lot of things related to finances (such as applying for loans or opening a bank account) will require PII.(2 votes)
- So if the FBI asks for my Address, do I not give it since im uncomfortable?(1 vote)
- The FBI have the right to know your address. They are very powerful.(1 vote)
- Sal, howd u know my SSN?(1 vote)
Video transcript
- Hi everyone. Sal Khan here from Khan academy. My Social Security Number is 857, - 32 - 5567. No, it's not. I wouldn't tell you my Social
Security Number like that. And that's because it is personally identifiable
information, or PII. And there's a reason why
you want to keep that to yourself, or at least
limit who has access to PII. Because if someone has access,
they can expose your privacy, tell the world where you
live, they could track you and they could tell the
world what you've been up to, maybe when you should be working what websites you're visiting, or, even worse, potentially,
they could steal your identity, take money out of your bank account, take a credit card in your name, do some other form of identity theft that could be embarrassing,
or super costly. So, if you have some type of a service, either online or otherwise,
that's asking for something like your Social Security Number, or your birthday, which might
be a little bit more indirect, or your email address,
or your phone number, you might ask why. Sometimes there's a legitimate reason why they need to know these things but many times, I'd argue
even most of the time, there might not be a legitimate reason. And so you need to ask yourself, well what are they going to do with it? And if you don't feel comfortable
giving that information, ask yourself, do you
really need that service? So think seriously about your PII. Unfortunately, bad actors
on the Internet are coming up with new ways of
leveraging both direct PII, personally identifiable information like Social Security Numbers, even biometrics, even your name, and indirect measures, or
indirect pieces of PII, like your birthday, or your
address, or your email address, or your phone number,
that can be put together to do shady things with your identity. So be very careful.