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Keep in mind that your IP address is part of your PD under the definition of GDPR.

by wglb 8y ago

josteink 8y ago
A horse oversimplification rendering your comment to be borderline bullshit. Ultimaty, by your interpretation, you can’t do anything privacy-sensitive online because every packet you send over the internet contains (in case you weren’t aware) your IP-address. :shocked_face: That’s how the internet works. And it’s not privacy sensitive unless connected to other data. The GDPR is perfectly reasonable, and obviously has amendments for these kind of things. TLDR: Stop spreading FUD.
- wglb 8y ago
  This is not simply my interpretation. Here is the GDPR definition itself: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
  - josteink 8y ago
    And where do you see IP address in that big list of things to consider? And how does the IP address (unlesss coupled with other data) identify you personally (as opposed to your PC or company network)? Hint: it doesn’t. Also: if the IP you send to everyone on the internet is “your” personal, private data, who owns that data when your DHCP lease expires and someone else gets it? See how that doesn’t work? At all? Good good. Yeah that IP address, unless coupled with other data, says nothing about you personally. I thought this much would be blatantly obvious to anyone even remotely competent on a techie site like HN. In short: it doesn’t work that way which you hysterical anti-GDPR fanatics are mindlessly repeating. If so, we’d have to shut down the entire internet and ban all server logs.

Keep in mind that your IP address is part of your PD under the definition of GDPR.

by wglb 8y ago

Keep in mind that your IP address is part of your PD under the definition of GDPR.

A horse oversimplification rendering your comment to be borderline bullshit. Ultimaty, by your interpretation, you can’t do anything privacy-sensitive online because every packet you send over the internet contains (in case you weren’t aware) your IP-address. :shocked_face: That’s how the internet works. And it’s not privacy sensitive unless connected to other data. The GDPR is perfectly reasonable, and obviously has amendments for these kind of things. TLDR: Stop spreading FUD.

wglb 8y ago
This is not simply my interpretation. Here is the GDPR definition itself: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;
- josteink 8y ago
  And where do you see IP address in that big list of things to consider? And how does the IP address (unlesss coupled with other data) identify you personally (as opposed to your PC or company network)? Hint: it doesn’t. Also: if the IP you send to everyone on the internet is “your” personal, private data, who owns that data when your DHCP lease expires and someone else gets it? See how that doesn’t work? At all? Good good. Yeah that IP address, unless coupled with other data, says nothing about you personally. I thought this much would be blatantly obvious to anyone even remotely competent on a techie site like HN. In short: it doesn’t work that way which you hysterical anti-GDPR fanatics are mindlessly repeating. If so, we’d have to shut down the entire internet and ban all server logs.