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by cmeacham98 977 days ago
It's still trivial to hash the full set of IPs with a salt appended.

I'd personally just collect IPs with no other details - it's not really invasive in my opinion, and saying you don't collect IPs leaves you open to being wrong when you accidentally leave the web server log enabled.

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There's this odd fixation lately on IP Addresses being a very private, very scary thing to see logged, and I'm not sure why.

It's obviously information somewhat linked to you and a geographic location, so de-anonymising possibly but it's also how packets are routed back to you. I don't expect web services to treat my information as public, but I do expect them to at least have an access log privately.