PII means "Personally identifiable information", if that's what the confusion is?

PII == Personally Identifying Information

Sorry, I sometimes make assumptions that many if not most of the people here have had at least some exposure to the language used in data security policies.

i think PII is publicly identifying information (a public identity)?

I dislike abbreviations for this exact reason. Both your and the above responses are different. Clearly it's not well known abbreviation.

Personally Identifying Information. It's pretty common to anyone who works with PII. Also the top Google search result for PII.

sorry, i probably shouldn't have replied. difficult to know whether the context is "quickly help me understand what this means" or "give me a precise answer", but for the web, with a technical audience, i should lean more towards the latter...