[gdpr-discuss] impact on anonymous services

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:31:55PM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> Some online services enable completely anonymous communication and don't
> know where their users come from (e.g., swissjabber.ch operates this
> way). Do we know if the GDPR applies to such services?

If it's truly anonymous then the GDPR is not applicable, but you need to
be careful that's definitely the case - things like usernames and IP
addresses are potentially personal information that would let you link
back to an individual.

J.

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