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To: Enterprise
Well does the Office of Personnel Management have files on ALL Government employees or just some of them?

Here's a sentence from the OPM website: Beginning June 8 and continuing through June 19, OPM will be sending notifications to approximately 4 million individuals whose Personally Identifiable Information was potentially compromised in this incident.

In fedgov speak Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is anything that could be used to identify an employee besides their name. The name is the key, and by itself is not PII, but anything with the name is - birth date, maiden name, address, phone number, ssn, mother/father/family information, marital status, sex, race, ethnicity, etc...

33 posted on 06/11/2015 8:08:10 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

An address may not be PII. It depends... For example, if an agency sent you a letter, the name and address appearing together on the outside of the envelope would not be considered protected PII.


35 posted on 06/11/2015 8:11:32 PM PDT by PAR35
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