Not so strange at all. The IP address _can_ be used to identify you (together with other data-points), which brings it into PII territory. That it can not be us

Not so strange at all. The IP address _can_ be used to identify you (together with other data-points), which brings it into PII territory. That it can not be used to reliably determine your physical location is besides the point. Consider an online store shipping physical goods. It asks you for a shipping address. This shipping address is PII and must be treated as such. The facts that you may reside elsewhere and that multiple other people may be residing on that address are both irrelevant to the GDPR. https://www.fieldfisher.com/en/services/privacy-security-and-information/privacy-security-and-information-law-blog/can-a-dynamic-ip-address-constitute-personal-data https://www.fieldfisher.com/en/services/privacy-security-and... https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/what-personal-data_en https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...