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IP addresses are also explicitly considered PII by California’s CCPA. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 http
by fmajid 6y ago
IP addresses are also explicitly considered PII by California’s CCPA.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
(o) (1) “Personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Personal information includes, but is not limited to, the following:
(A) Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
- that_guy_iain 6y agoJust to be that guy. There is a slight difference between Personal Identifying Information and Personal Information.
- donohoe 6y agoThat was true once. Longer answer "it depends": “[I]f a business collects the IP addresses of visitors to its websites but does not link the IP address to any particular consumer or household, and could not reasonably link the IP address with a particular consumer or household, then the IP address would not be ‘personal information.” Source: https://iapp.org/news/a/are-ip-addresses-personal-information-under-ccpa/ https://iapp.org/news/a/are-ip-addresses-personal-informatio...
- fmajid 6y agoYou missed the paragraph: "However, when the attorney general revised its draft regulations for a second time March 11, the guidance was struck without explanation."