[hanoz]

Okay, massive tangent, but it's been bugging me for a while and this has finally tipped me over the edge - why is it called personally identifiable information? That would be information that someone can personally identify surely? Shouldn't it be personally identifying information?

[TheSpiceIsLife]

Words mean whatever people who use them intend them to mean.

[ynx]

Because it's information that may be able to identify, but is not necessarily conclusively identifying of, a person.