Set by the law · GDPR recital 30
IP address as personal data
In plain English
An IP address can be personal data. Under the GDPR's predecessor, the Court of Justice held that a dynamic IP address is personal data for a website operator legally able to identify the user via the internet provider.
The official text
Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags.
a dynamic IP address registered by an online media services provider when a person accesses a website that the provider makes accessible to the public constitutes personal data within the meaning of that provision, in relation to that provider, where the latter has the legal means which enable it to identify the data subject with additional data which the internet service provider has about that person
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