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Treating IP addresses as PII continues go be incredibly tedious and as far as I can tell, they are PII because providers are forced by law to keep those records. Is that correct?

It would be so much better to just reduce and safeguard that information instead of handing it out to any rando with a court order.

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Sadly, the United States used to have a treaty law in place that delivered the easy solution you describe. In mid-2020, the treaty was found not to provide the necessary protections, and invalidated by EU courts; no replacement treaty was negotiated or signed by the US, and so here we are.

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