How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop

Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by chrisweekly on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:36PM (#16480236)

>"Previously it was an ethically grey area to be logging IP addresses anyway."

wat.

Standard log formats capture IP, and have ~forever. Who claims this is an ethical quandary?

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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by Tomte on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:41PM (#16480724)

I won‘t address „ethical“, but collecting full IP addresses has been discussed as possibly illegal in Germany for years now.

And since the recent European court decision, I suppose it is settled: yes, illegal.

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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by aeorgnoieang on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:30AM (#16483574)

What's a 'not full' IP address?

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Re:How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop by matt4077 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:41AM (#16483652)

Leaving the last three digits out of logs gives you all the information you might need without making it possible to tie it back to a specific user. Google Analytics actually has an option for that.

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