identifier
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The hackers also obtained access to unique student identifier numbers as well as information about gender, race or ethnicity, primary language, country of origin and English learner status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
When a child is adopted in the UK, their NHS number - or equivalent health service identifier - is changed to protect their anonymity.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
That dollar amount served as a unique identifier in a separate disclosure table showing OBDC’s valuation methods for different categories of Level 3 investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
The artist’s last name is written in block letters along one edge, but there’s some confusion over whether the artist or the school added it later as an identifier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2025
In the spot where the identifier should have been, there were instead a censor’s thick black box and the words “I.D. Temporarily Removed from System.”
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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Since the public rolls don’t include voters’ unique identifiers, people at the lab also knew linking them to HSI’s data would produce mismatches — what the staffer called an “ungodly” number of false positives.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Disney’s privacy policy notes that the identifiers created for identification are deleted within 30 days unless they need to be kept for legal or fraud prevention purposes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
These patterns act as unique optical identifiers that are difficult to replicate, making them useful for anti-counterfeiting and traceability applications.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026
When we entrust digital platforms with our biometric data, we hand over unique, irreplaceable biological identifiers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
She plays the tape backward and forward, stops and starts, scribbles down identifiers she missed.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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