Links to pii are by far the worst sort of pii, yes.
“It’s not his actual money, it’s just his bank account and routing number.”
Links to pii are by far the worst sort of pii, yes.
“It’s not his actual money, it’s just his bank account and routing number.”
A more accurate analogy is "it's not his actual money, it's a link to a webpage or image that has his bank account and routing number."
My contention is that links to pii are themselves pii.
A name, Jon Smith, is technically PII but not very specific. If I have a link to a specific Jon Smith’s facebook page or his HN profile, it’s even more personally identifiable than knowing his name is Jon Smith.
That is crazy. The target of a link could change, which means that all links are Schroedinger's PII.
And if a link to PII is PII, then a link to a link to PII is PII, and thus all links are PII unless it links to the dark (unlinked) Web
Well yes, by knowing my bank account and routing number, you don't have access to my money.
You do in the US.
That sounds insecure. Looks like blockchain and private keys with extra hops. Perhaps you can easily revert banking transactions...