Data Access & Collection · Context
Personally identifying information is information usable for fraud, excluding publicly available details
Personally identifying information means information, including health information, that could be used to commit fraud or other illegal activity involving the credit, access to health care or identity of a Member, including Social Security numbers, account numbers, passwords or login credentials, or other methods to access or control a computing device or connected home device system identification. It does not include information otherwise available to the public, such as names and addresses. For data breach coverage the definition refers to the affected individual instead of a Member.
Supporting quotations
Personally identifying information
Personally identifying information means information, including health information, that could be used to commit fraud or other illegal activity involving the credit, access to health care or identity of a Member. This includes, but is not limited to, Social Security numbers, account numbers, passwords or login credentials, or other methods to access or control a computing device or connected home device system identification.
b. With respect to coverage B.2.h. Data Breach, personally identifying information means information, including health information, that could be used to commit fraud or other illegal activity involving the credit, access to health care or identity of an affected individual.
Personally identifying information does not mean or include information that is otherwise available to the public, such as names and addresses.
Computing device means a desktop, laptop or tablet computer or Wi-Fi router or other internet access point.
Connected home device means any electronic device, other than a computing device, that connects to the internet or to other electronic devices.
Qualifications & exceptions
- A stolen identity event, and therefore coverage, depends on the theft or release of a Member's personally identifying information.