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> The Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) [3] ruled differently and waived most of the arguments raised by Google. The DSB ruled that even anonymized IP ad
by weissed 5y ago
> The Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) [3] ruled differently and waived most of the arguments raised by Google. The DSB ruled that even anonymized IP addresses are personal data.
Why are anonymised IP addresses still considered "Personal Data"?
Is it because Google is doing the anonymisation?
- newaccount74 5y agoI guess it depends what "anonymised IP address" means. If it's still possible to correlate data from visitors across different websites, they might as well log IP addresses directly.
- judge2020 5y agoThe court disagreed on the basis that US federal law enforcement could force Google to stop anonymizing IP addresses at any moment, not that their IP anonymization[0] is inadequate. 0: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en
- AdriaanvRossum 5y agoI think it's personal data because you can track a visitor across multiple visits. Based on that identifier you can connect all the other data points from a visitor. I think that's not privacy-friendly at all.
- things 5y agoI believe the issue isn't specifically with anonymised IP addresses in GA. The problem is that the Google Analytics code is loaded from a third party server and, to do that, this server gets your IP address even if the data sent by the GA code itself contains an anonymised one.