Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem
SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 months agowww.ibm.com/topics/pii#:~:text=Personally identif….
Usernames are not and never have been considered pii
The GDPR states it clearly that the company/entity has to be collecting pii or selling something to the person. Lemmy does neither of these.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
How is IBM authoritative on this subject? And even so, this article doesn’t say that usernames are not PII, it even indirectly says it is indirect PII.
Here’s another random company’s page saying usernames are PII: keepersecurity.com/…/what-is-personally-identifia…
The GDPR says it clearly and explicitly that:
SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Usernames that are used in an internal network are, because they’re linked to pii, a public username is not pii.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
And where did you read that? If anything, public usernames are easier to correlate to form identities.