In traditional ID theft, the thief steals all of the personal information of one person to create a new identity.
Clients also gained "personal information of a confidential, embarrassing, or incriminating nature regarding other individuals".
The government has the personal information of every individual who signed up for DACA.
Facebook has the world's largest collection of photos and personal information of any company.
NBC said: "We filed a complaint with Twitter because a user tweeted the personal information of one of our executives.
"Our overarching principle is that the personal information of our members is owned by our members," he says.
"Facebook makes its money from my personal information and the personal information of millions of other people," he said.
He said courts and regulators have found that the personal information of children should receive special privacy protection.
Not everyone is comfortable with the idea of sharing personal information, of living in full view on the Web.
In 2011 the personal information of 35m Koreans was stolen from Cyworld, then the country's most popular social network.
Further expenditures in the form of increased security measures are often necessary to protect the personal information of customers.
