will stimulate commerce by instilling greater consumer confidence at home and greater confidence abroad as more and more entities digitize personally identifiable information, whether collected, stored, or used online or offline. 103. Definitions (a) In general Subject to subsection (b), in this title: (1) Commission The term Commission means the Federal Trade Commission. (2) Covered entity The term covered entity means any person to whom this title applies under section 151. (3) Covered information (A) In general Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term covered information means only the following: (i) Personally identifiable information. (ii) Unique identifier information. (iii) Any information that is collected, used, or stored in connection with personally identifiable information or unique identifier information in a manner that may reasonably be used by the party collecting the information to identify a specific individual. (B) Exception The term covered information does not include the following: (i) Personally identifiable information obtained from public records that is not merged with covered information gathered elsewhere. (ii) Personally identifiable information that is obtained from a forum— (I) where the individual voluntarily shared the information or authorized the information to be shared