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Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by outworlder on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:26PM (#22239869)
Or they can stay 'private' by not being stored or correlated with other user data. GDPR doesn't apply to the network itself, it applies to whoever is using it.
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Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by shadowgovt on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:28PM (#22239897)
"Stored" is definitely the purpose of a router. "Correlated" can be necessary for debugging routing issues (or client-server connection issues that are tied to the intermediary fabric near the client doing something weird; hard to determine if an entire subnet is acting up if you aren't allowed to maintain state on errors correlated to IP address).
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Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID by detaro on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:29PM (#22242299)
Where do you get the idea that GDPR doesn't allow you to process PII for the purpose of routing packets?
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