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> including any personally identifiable information you include in your submission Wording here is a little ambiguous. As a techie, it's pretty easy to make an
by Gaelan 6y ago
> including any personally identifiable information you include in your submission
Wording here is a little ambiguous. As a techie, it's pretty easy to make an argument that the IP address is something I "included" in the submission (it's part of the packets my computer is sending on my behalf), but I'm not sure the average person would read it that way, instead interpreting it as pertaining only to information they explicitly typed into a text box.
- acdha 6y agoYes, but even in that case how much does it change matters to go from your name, city, state, zip code, email address, etc. to include an IP? I mean, a data miner might be able to tell if you were posting from a house which isn’t yours or using your employer’s network but the entered PII is enough to uniquely identify a large number of people.