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We are at datacenter business and we rent hardware/vps. For our case, lawyer at our company said that IP is personal data only when it is written in contract, i
by jve 8y ago
We are at datacenter business and we rent hardware/vps. For our case, lawyer at our company said that IP is personal data only when it is written in contract, i.e. when you lease a server and we assign you a static IP. In other cases you cannot create a 1:1 mapping between IP address and physical person. Even when that IP is assigned to a household - still that cannot be PII because multiple people may use that IP.
- clarry 8y ago> ... cannot be PII because multiple people may use that IP. I think such reasoning is a little unfortunate. Multiple people share my name. Multiple people could live in or visit my household. So is my name and address not PII? I don't think that underlining all the cases where some given bit of information may fail to identify a person is the right approach when it comes to making a blanket statement about whether said info is PII. I don't think courts would follow that reasoning either, especially when there will be lots and lots of counterexamples where following that trail of information leads to facts that most people would conclude as identifying a person exactly (at least with a very high degree of certainty).