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You miss a crucial point
Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 03:30 PM EDT
What if she used her work email as the contact for her private phone?

But anyway, that's irrelevant. The point is, the information enables a 3rd-party
to link the phone account to a recognisable individual. That is personal
information.

Cheers,
Wol

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*.gov.uk email addresses
Authored by: cricketjeff on Wednesday, July 03 2013 @ 03:47 PM EDT
The example given is, I imagine, deliberately chosen to illustrate the point
without actually giving away any information that should not be disclosed.

However if I happened to have "mysmalltown.org" as a domain and my
name is an unusual one then

Avery.Rarename@mysmalltown.org

appearing on this list would disclose that one particular individual owns an
ipad. If Avery were applying for a job at M$ ...

The point is that email addresses can be, within the EU, considered as PII that
must be treated as confidential.



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