What Is “Personal Information”? How Privacy Laws Around the World Define the Concept That Drives Compliance
Every privacy law begins in the same place: a definition. Before any obligation to disclose, obtain consent, honor a deletion request, or report a breach attaches, the law must first establish what information it governs. That foundational concept, “personal information” in U.S. law and “personal data” in European and many international frameworks, is the threshold …
