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Not to be dismissive but you can write software for a living and not deal with personal data. It's possible. Entire fields out there.

• lazide 4y ago
  Since even IP addresses are considered personal information, that seems a bit unlikely - anything that talks over a network is potentially an issue. Highly sensitive personal information like medical records are of course easier to ignore.
  • ratww 4y ago
    You can simply not store any IP addresses whatsoever, or anonymise them. Current privacy laws have provisions for it. It's not only about which data goes trough your system. It's about what you do with it. When I go to my friend's house they also see my face and hear my voice, but they don't record it. That's an important distinction when it comes to privacy.
    • lazide 4y ago
      Which is impossible without even more work (up front) in any system which needs to maintain any sort of plausible audit records, prevent abuse or DOS attacks, be able to correlate traffic to resource usage, etc. Which is pretty much any non-toy system, and a bunch of toy systems. And you’d be surprised how many friends are recording, especially if they have kids - nanny cams, home security cameras, ring/doorbell cameras, etc. It’s probably 50% or more of households now. It doesn’t require that they’ve got a mic taped to their chest to be doing so.
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