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Personal Information Protection Law (China)
The Personal Information Protection Law (中华人民共和国个人信息保护法, PIPL) is China's first comprehensive data privacy law, adopted in August 2021 and effective 1 November 2021, regulating how personal information is collected and used.
Personal injury
Personal injury: harm to body or mind compensated through tort law, chiefly negligence, or through no-fault schemes like workers' compensation; covers history, Florida NICA, UK claim data.
Personal injury lawyer
Personal injury lawyer: plaintiff-side attorney handling tort claims (car accidents, malpractice, wrongful death), typically paid a contingency fee of about 33% of recovery, governed by ABA Model Rule 1.5 and state fee caps.
Personal Jesus
Personal Jesus: 1989 Depeche Mode single written by Martin Gore, lead single from Violator, released 29 August 1989; UK No. 13, US No. 28; famously covered by Johnny Cash (2002) and Marilyn Manson (2004).
Personal knowledge
Personal knowledge is knowledge grounded in the knower's own experience and commitment, the subject of Michael Polanyi's 1958 book; in law it means a witness's firsthand awareness.
Personal life of Clint Eastwood
The personal life of Clint Eastwood covers his family background, marriages to Maggie Johnson and Dina Ruiz, eight documented children, and single term as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea from 1986 to 1988.
Personal life of David Bowie
Personal life of David Bowie (David Robert Jones, 1947–2016): family in Brixton and Bromley, half-brother Terry, marriages to Angela Barnett and Iman, children Duncan and Lexi, 2004 heart surgery, New York privacy.
Personal life of Frank Sinatra
Personal life of Frank Sinatra: four marriages (Nancy Barbato, Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow, Barbara Marx), three children, the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Jr., 40 years of FBI files, and the biographies covering them.
Personal life of Gene Roddenberry
Personal life of Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991), Star Trek creator: marriages to Eileen Rexroat (1942-1969) and Majel Barrett (1969), children Darleen, Dawn, and Rod, death in Santa Monica 1991, ashes flown on shuttle Columbia.
Personal life of Jeffrey Epstein
Personal life of Jeffrey Epstein: Brooklyn-born financier (1953–2019), never married, longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell; Dalton teacher, no degree; homes in Manhattan, Palm Beach, New Mexico, Paris, and Little Saint James; Harvard donor.
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci
Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci: household, finances, patrons and will of the Renaissance painter (1452–1519), documented via catasto records, notebooks, Salaì and Melzi, and the 1519 testament.
Personal life of Lindsay Lohan
Personal life of Lindsay Lohan: family troubles, 2007 DUI arrests and rehab, relationships with Samantha Ronson and Egor Tarabasov, 2022 marriage to Bader Shammas, son Luai, and private life in Dubai since 2014.
Personal life of Marvin Gaye
Personal life of Marvin Gaye: the soul singer's abusive childhood under Rev. Marvin Gay Sr., name change to "Gaye," marriages to Anna Gordy and Janis Hunter, children Nona and Frankie, and his 1984 killing by his father.
Personal life of Osama bin Laden
Personal life of Osama bin Laden: family background in the Saudi bin Laden construction dynasty, his marriages including Najwa Ghanem, Khairiah, and Amal, his children Omar and Hamza, exile households in Sudan and Afghanistan, and the family's fate after the 2011 Abbottabad raid.
Personal life of Stanley Kubrick
Personal life of Stanley Kubrick: the Bronx-born director's marriages (Toba Metz, Ruth Sobotka, Christiane Harlan), his Hertfordshire homes Abbots Mead and Childwickbury Manor, his night-owl American-time routine, privacy, and 1999 death.
Personal life of Whitney Houston
Personal life of Whitney Houston: her Newark gospel family, secret romance with Robyn Crawford confirmed in 2019, 1992-2007 marriage to Bobby Brown, daughter Bobbi Kristina, addiction, 2012 death, and estate under Pat Houston.
Personal lubricant
A personal lubricant, also called a sexual lubricant or sex lube, is a water-, silicone-, or oil-based product that reduces friction during sexual activity and supplements natural lubrication.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, written in 1885 while he was bankrupt and dying of throat cancer.
Personal name
Personal name: the proper name identifying an individual, combining given names and surnames in culture-specific structures; covers cross-cultural naming systems, meaning, digital identity standards, and name matching algorithms.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah is Richard Francis Burton's three-volume 1855–1856 account of the 1853 hajj he performed disguised as a Muslim.
Personal pronoun
Personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they) are deictic words referring to speech-act participants, defined by person and number, usually a closed class, historically stable, with English singular they now expanding the set.
Personal property
Personal property (personalty, goods and chattels) is any property that is not land or items immovable by law: tangible goods plus intangibles like copyrights, shares, and debts, protected historically by detinue, trover, and trespass to chattels.
Personal protection against tick bites
Personal protection against tick bites covers skin-applied repellents, protective clothing, and tick checks. These measures are essential because transmission of bacterial pathogens increases based on attachment duration.
Personal protective equipment
Personal protective equipment (PPE): worn or held gear, from N95/FFP2 respirators to gloves and eye protection, regulated by OSHA/NIOSH in the US and EU Regulation 2016/425; last tier of the hierarchy of controls.
Personal relationships of Alexander the Great
Personal relationships of Alexander the Great: family ties to Philip II and Olympias, his closest friend and probable lover Hephaestion, rivalry with Craterus, and marriages to Roxane, Stateira, and Parysatis.
Personal relationships of Elvis Presley
Personal relationships of Elvis Presley: parents Vernon and Gladys, wife Priscilla Beaulieu (married 1967, divorced 1973), daughter Lisa Marie, partners Anita Wood, Linda Thompson, Ginger Alden, and the Memphis Mafia inner circle.
Personal relationships of Michael Jackson
Personal relationships of Michael Jackson: his Gary, Indiana family, marriages to Lisa Marie Presley (1994-1996) and Debbie Rowe (1996-1999/2000), his three children, custody, and public scrutiny.
Personal relationships of Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney's personal relationships: engagement to Jane Asher (1963–1968), marriage to Linda Eastman (1969–1998), Heather Mills (2002–2008), and Nancy Shevell (2011–present), plus the songs each inspired.
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, or PRWORA, is the US law that abolished AFDC and created the TANF block grant with work requirements and five-year time limits.
Personal RF safety monitor
A personal RF safety monitor is a small body-worn device that measures radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and warns the wearer with light, sound, and vibration when exposure limits are approached.