[whadar]

When a user access any website of content providers online, they implicitly agree to the terms of service of that provider. When using Peer5, the terms of service includes a language about public IP temporarily visible to other users.

[TekMol]

This line of thinking makes me feel uncomfortable. That you can secretly give away data about me and which videos I watch because of some text in your TOS.

I also doubt it would hold in court. TOS have a very restricted applicability. You can not use them to restrict people's rights in unexpected ways.

[brilliantcode]

Why not use VPN if you feel that uncomfortable? That's what it's designed for to hide your real IP.

[oliwarner]

An IP address is not PII. Linking it to viewed videos is still not PII. Good luck in court.

[detaro]

True in the US, not true in the EU. There is a reason Google Analytics has a switch to throw a few bits of an IP away, and it surely isn't because Google hates data.

Given that they are selling a CDN, and thus likely want to sell to globally operating customers, that might become relevant relatively quickly.

[dbbk]

I can tell you at the BBC it was 100% considered PII.