| 27 Oct 2025 |
 emily | do you need consent to publish google.com's IP? | 17:57:39 |
| emily | it's offered in a public database (DNS) to the general public in order for people to access services from it | 17:57:51 |
| emily | someone participating in a public torrent swarm is asking a public database (torrent tracker) to offer their IP to the general public in order for people to access services (downloading chunks / peer exchange / …) from it | 17:58:21 |
| emily | (of course, whether people realize that clicking download is essentially volunteering to act as a public internet server is another matter, which I can imagine the GDPR caring about…) | 17:58:51 |
 tgerbet | Google is not a natural person and even if you can consider that consent was given to the torrent tracker, it does not extend to the other parties that might process the information (collection is considered a processing)
And yes I agree the whole thing is weird for P2P context | 18:21:36 |
| emily | then I guess we should hydraPlatforms = [ ]; it? though that won't stop people using it in packages. | 18:31:52 |
| emily | AFAICT it would require turning down the log level all the way to not showing any warnings or info messages at all to get rid of the IP logging. | 18:32:12 |
 toonn | IP addresses can be personal data, but if they cannot be traced back to a specific natural person then it's not personal data. | 18:55:01 |
| toonn | If it's only timestamps and IPs I doubt that would count as personal data. | 18:55:19 |
| toonn | Other factors that come into this are whether the treatment is reasonable. Logging IPs every hour for years doesn't seem reasonable. A log every couple days for a month or so seems pretty reasonable. | 18:56:18 |
