[gdpr-discuss] impact on anonymous services

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On 4/13/18 2:40 AM, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> 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.

Good point. It's an open question whether any service is truly anonymous...

Peter


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