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A comment on GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU. Parent comment

Re:GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU by edaemon on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:45PM (#17097680)
How would one identify a person using only an IP address?

If you have "other ways to identify somebody based on an IP address" then that wouldn't meet the criteria laid out by the lawyers.

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Re:GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU by kasey_junk on Thursday May 17, 2018 @09:22PM (#17097890)
I think the concern of the regulatory agencies (valid or not) is that there are db for sale that allow extremely precise locality information based on IP. Close enough to identify a household, which combined with other data can limit the data to a single person.
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