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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by musage on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @05:17PM (#16478537)
> a continuous drag on developing new technologies

Any and all of them? Because of anonymized IP addresses in server logs? I wouldn't even buy that when it comes to the web, but certainly not to mention talking about computers and software in general, or even "tech in general", whatever that would be.

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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by aeorgnoieang on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:39AM (#16483640)
What's an anonymized IP address? As others have pointed out, there is a sufficiently small number of IP (v4) addresses that any hash function output of them can be easily brute-forced nowadays. So the only 'anonymous' IP address is the one you never collect in the first place.
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