Metacrafter Registry

Datatypes

Username

ID username

DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft

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Name of the user or login, commonly used for authentication or user identification purposes

Categories
Personally identifiable information, Person related
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
W3C DPV
pd:Username
Quality
40/100 · missing: regexp, examples, negative example, source link, translation
Metacrafter rules
3 rules (2 by field name, 1 by value)
Supported by tools
Amazon Comprehend, csv-detective, Metabase, metacrafter, metacrafterpro, Metadata Guardian, PII Catcher

Child datatypes

IDNameCategoriesCountriesDescription
bluesky_handle Bluesky handle PII draft pii, persons, useraccounts global Handle of a Bluesky account: a domain name, such as name.bsky.social or a custom domain.
facebook_username Facebook username PII draft pii, persons, useraccounts global Username of a Facebook profile or page, the part of the address after facebook.com/.
github_username Github username PII pii, persons, useraccounts global Person/organization username in Github
instagram_username Instagram username PII pii, persons, useraccounts global Person username in Instagram
mastodon_address Mastodon address PII draft pii, persons, useraccounts global Address of an account on Mastodon or another fediverse server: user@server, sometimes written with a leading @.
osm_user OpenStreetMap username PII draft pii, persons, useraccounts global Display name of an OpenStreetMap account. In element data it names the user who made the latest version of the object; osm2pgsql writes...
skype_username Skype username PII draft pii, persons, useraccounts global Person username in Skype
telegram_username Telegram username PII draft pii, persons, useraccounts global Username of a Telegram user, channel or group, as in t.me/<username>, written without the @.
tiktok_username TikTok username PII draft pii, persons, useraccounts global Username of a TikTok account, written without the @.
twitter_username Twitter username PII pii, persons, useraccounts global Person username in Twitter
vk_username VK username PII draft pii, persons, useraccounts global Short name of a VK (VKontakte) account, page or community, as in vk.com/<name>.
youtube_channel_id YouTube channel ID PII draft pii, persons, useraccounts global Identifier of a YouTube channel: UC and 22 characters, as in youtube.com/channel/<id>. Channel handles that start with @ are different...

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