186:(PIN) is any information that can allow someone to uniqely identify, contact, or locate a person. This can include a phone number, address, email, name of a school, community center or park, clubs or organizations, last names, social security numbers, to name a few. This could also include a link to a myspace page or facebook or personal website that has the information. Any information which could be used to obtain PIN should also be considered PIN. You may not think a first name and mention of an athletic track award is personally identifiable, but a google search on the award and a first name could lead to a last name and broad location. Then a white pages search of the last name and broad location can lead to a specific location and phone number.
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in the collective goal of protecting future generations. Parents should not assume this guideline is sufficient to keep their children safe. We will do our best, but we are neither the first nor last line of defense. If you are a parent and ok with your child submitting information about themselves online, feel free to say so.
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be used on pages suspected of being children. Such use will only target children for predators and have the opposite effect of this guideline. If information that could idenfity the child is posted or easily accessible based on information they've already supplied, you should not do any action that
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Any article that contains PIN that is available on any other public source is excluded from this guideline. This also does not pertain to children on
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