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by SquareWheel 3037 days ago
Are IP addresses actually considered "personal data"? They are how computers talk to each other. Anonymizing them doesn't make any sense to me.
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They're anonymized for things like logs. When the computers aren't talking to each other, the reasons to know the exact IP address are rather minimized. If you feel you have a real need to do so, then you just need to inform your users what you're doing.