personal identification; identifying an individual
Refers to the act or process of determining a specific person's identity, often used in contexts like privacy, data protection, or law enforcement.
Personal identification is not possible from this data.
Information that could lead to identifying an individual has been removed.
個人情報 refers to personal information itself, while 個人特定 is the act or process of identifying a specific individual from such information.
特定 means 'specifying' or 'identifying' in general; 個人特定 narrows the focus to identifying a person.
Compound of 個人 (individual) and 特定 (identification/specification). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word follows standard Sino-Japanese compounding patterns.