IP Address In Anti-Piracy Probe Was Not Personal Data, Says French Court
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A French music collecting society did not breach data protection rules when it collected the internet protocol (IP) address of an internet user, according to the Paris Appeal Court. The IP address on its own did not count as personal data, the court said. The question of whether and when IP addresses, which are assigned to devices when they connect to the internet, are personal data is a controversial one because European data protection laws control what can and cannot...
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