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    1 year ago

    IP is considered as PII.

    Sure, but a lot of systems don’t actually store it. Even if they do, erasing the last octet (for IPv4) or the last 32 bits (for IPv6) is sufficient to de-identify it.

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        1 year ago

        You can’t guarantee it is isn’t stored somewhere

        OK, but what do you expect companies to do about this? There’s literally no way to browse the web without revealing your IP address. Are you saying that every single company online is collecting PII?

        Even just checking for updates (which happens in the background with all modern software) would connect to Mozilla’s servers.