Re:GitLab 11 released
by merb on Saturday June 23, 2018 @09:25AM
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> In the EU IP alone could be considered PII
that statement is wrong.
first of all IP Addresses are only PII if you store them to identify users, means that if you are user table has an ip_address field, it is, however...
if you store all ip's accessing your service in a database to find malicious logins it isn't.
so basically the statement is, it depends.
the connection of user to ip makes it PII.
Re:GitLab 11 released
by a_imho on Sunday June 24, 2018 @05:29AM
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I think we agree context is important. However GitLab is collecting IPs in combination with hostnames, not to mention the rest of the traffic that could easily be used to fingerprint users.
that statement is wrong. first of all IP Addresses are only PII if you store them to identify users, means that if you are user table has an ip_address field, it is, however... if you store all ip's accessing your service in a database to find malicious logins it isn't. so basically the statement is, it depends. the connection of user to ip makes it PII.