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Is this personal data?

• dessant 7y ago
  Unless they anonymize absolutely everything, including our IP addresses, then yes, it is personal data. https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/ https://about.gitlab.com/privacy/ > Third party tracking services gather certain simple, non-personally identifying information over time, such as your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring and exit pages, timestamp, and similar data about your use of the Website. We do not link this information to any of your personal information such as your user name. They don't have to link your IP address to your name, because the IP address itself is already an identifier and so considered personal data.
  • aaomidi 7y ago
    Even then it just takes a very small amount of effort to argue that the anonymized data is still personal and can be linked back to individuals with a bit of statistical analysis.
• woolly 7y ago
  In addition to dessant's links, the European Commission has a good page which lists out examples (including IP address) of what is considered personal data[1]. [1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/what-personal-data_en https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
• Nextgrid 7y ago
  Anything that can be used to identify the user is considered personal data. Even something innocent enough like screen resolution can be personal data if you’ve got someone with a unique browser window size (let’s say they have a custom window manager that makes the window slightly smaller than the common screen resolution, and it never changes because it’s a filing window manager and they always keep the browser in the same place).