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Security, Privacy and Compliance

What Is PII?

Information that can identify a specific person, such as names, addresses, ID numbers, financial details or health data.

Legal Tech GlossaryBy The Circle Desk

Why It Matters

Knowing where PII lives drives privacy compliance, breach response and redaction in productions. AI tools can now find it at scale across documents and data.

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Related Terms

Redaction
Permanently removing privileged, confidential or personal information from a document before it is shared.
GDPR
The EU General Data Protection Regulation, which governs how personal data about people in the EU is collected, used, transferred and protected. The UK has its own version.
DSAR (data subject access request)
A request from an individual to see, correct or delete the personal data an organization holds about them.

General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.