(a) In general The Securities and Exchange Commission may not require a national securities exchange, a national securities association, or a member of such an exchange or association to provide personally identifiable information with respect to a market participant to meet the requirements relating to an order or a reportable event under section 242.613(c)(7) of title 17, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations). Regulations. (b) Definition of personally identifiable information In this section, the term personally identifiable information means information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, either alone or when combined with other personal or identifying information that is linked or linkable to a specific individual, including an individual’s name, address, date or year of birth, Social Security number, taxpayer-identification number, financial account number, driver’s license number, alien registration number, telephone number, email, and IP-address.email address, Internet Protocol address, or biometric data.