Overview#

Blinding Identity Taxonomy (BIT) is has the aim of providing needed common standards to help protect the privacy of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about entities.

Blinding Identity Taxonomy initiative addresses some of the fundamental demands of the EU's new GDPR regulation on the storage of PII data

BIT checklist and ensure that no PII data escapes encryption.

• Names (incl. First Names,Last Names, Full Names, Entity Names)
• Physical Addresses
• E-mail Addresses
• Telephone Numbers
• Postal Codes
• Personal Software Application Handles (e.g. Skype, Slack, Hyperledger Chat, etc.)
• Profile Pages
• Passport Numbers
• Social Security Numbers
• National Insurance Numbers
• Driver License Numbers
• Vehicle Registration Numbers
• Bank Account Numbers
• Credit (or Debit) Card Numbers
• Personal Identification Numbers (PIN)
• Self-sovereign Key Identifiers
• Decentralized Identifier (DIDs)
• Employee Identifiers
• Account Identifiers
• Governmental Identifiers
• Membership Identifiers (e.g. Trade Union Membership, etc.)
• Institutional Identifiers (e.g. Private Health Care Provider Identifiers, etc.)
• Case Identifiers (e.g. Case ID Numbers, Benefit Plan Participation Identifiers, etc.)
• User Identifiers (e.g. User IDs, Logins, etc.)
• Passwords
• Signatures
• Digital Certificates
• Photos
• Videos
• Images
• Vocal Sound Bites
• Dates (e.g.Date of Birth, etc.)
• Genetic Identifiers (incl. chromosomal, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) data)
• Biometric Identifiers (incl. voiceprints, iris scans, facial imaging and dactyloscopic (fingerprint) data)
• Internet Protocol IP Address
• Media Access Control (MAC) Addresses
• GPS Locational Information
• Cookie Browser Identifiers
• Radio Frequency Identifiers
• IoT Identifiers (incl. smart meter data)
• Social Websites media interactive elements, posts and comments (incl. likes, emojis and polling results)
• Free-Form Text Fields / Unstructured data

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Taxonomy

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• [#1] - The blinding identity taxonomy initiative - based on information obtained 2018-10-10-