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by rhabarba 2964 days ago
IP addresses, e-mail addresses from those who comment...
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IP addresses alone are not personal data. They're only personal data if they can be used to identify a natural person.

If someone is gathering and storing email addresses and ip addresses it seems reasonable to ask them to take industry standard measures to protect that data, and to let users know that the data is being collected.

> IP addresses alone are not personal data.

According to the GDPR, they are. https://eugdprcompliant.com/personal-data/

"The conclusion is that the GDPR does consider it as such."