Europe’s top court to rule on whether IP addresses are personal data

Europe’s top court is set to answer a question that seems to be as old as the Internet: Are IP addresses personal data?

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice was scheduled to rule on this Tuesday, but instead decided to refer the matter to the European Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

The answer to the question is crucial for ongoing discussions about the EU data protection reform as well as for the many websites that track and store users’ IP addresses, the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZBV) said.

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