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by xxs 2029 days ago
>Is it GDPR compliant to hash a user's IP address

It is not, hashing would be pretty much a bijection, anyways. Storing state would be fine, though.

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> hashing would be pretty much a bijection

By "hash" I just meant its broader meaning of "converting": "IP address" to "broad geographical region". There would be no way to convert, say, "Monaco" back to an IP address