Links to pii are by far the worst sort of pii, yes.
“It’s not his actual money, it’s just his bank account and routing number.”
“It’s not his actual money, it’s just his bank account and routing number.”
A name, Jon Smith, is technically PII but not very specific. If I have a link to a specific Jon Smith’s facebook page or his HN profile, it’s even more personally identifiable than knowing his name is Jon Smith.
And if a link to PII is PII, then a link to a link to PII is PII, and thus all links are PII unless it links to the dark (unlinked) Web