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Re:Google's reCAPTCHA likely illegal in Europe? by smeagull on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:15PM (#36439889)
IP isn't personal, isn't unique, and isn't identifying.
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Re:Google's reCAPTCHA likely illegal in Europe? by theshrike79 on Friday June 23, 2023 @02:50AM (#36443653)
The point of the law is that anything that can be easily (technically easily, not contractually or legally) combined with another database to make the first bit of data PII - then it's PII.

An IP address can be trivially combined with the ISPs data and provide the exact user of an IP during any point in time.

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Re:Google's reCAPTCHA likely illegal in Europe? by smeagull on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:46PM (#36610436)
So anything is PII.

> An IP address can be trivially combined with the ISPs data and provide the exact user of an IP during any point in time.

Not even then.

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