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QuestionQ7

Privacy Fundamentals

Which jurisdiction was the first to regard IP addresses as personal information?

  • A India.
  • B Hong Kong.
  • C The United States.
  • D The European Union.
Explanation

The European Union’s data-protection framework applied a broad definition of personal data to information relating to an identifiable person, and EU privacy authorities recognized that IP addresses can meet that definition. The Court of Justice of the European Union later confirmed that a dynamic IP address is personal data where the controller has legal means to identify the individual using additional information.

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