Title: Blocked IPs / GDPR
Last modified: July 13, 2018

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# Blocked IPs / GDPR

 *  Resolved [wpblogwriter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpblogwriter/)
 * (@wpblogwriter)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocked-ips-gdpr/)
 * Hi,
 * I have read through a couple pages regarding your GDPR compliance and also went
   through (I think) all settings items.
    I can’t find any information about how
   long the IPs are stored within WordPress regarding blocked IPs. In the dashboard,
   I can see that last week, these X IPs were blocked but when I click on the button“
   Update blocked IPs” I see no IPs as there is only a table for current blocked
   IPs, not the ones from before..
 * So my questions:
    – how long are the blocked IPs stored? – is there a way of 
   manually or automatically remove them? – what happens with the IPs which are 
   shared over the Security Network? How long are these IPs stored? Are the IP and
   the site name of the reporting WordPress instance anonymized?
 * Thank you for help

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 *  [Kerry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kboyte/)
 * (@kboyte)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocked-ips-gdpr/#post-10510413)
 * Hi [@wpblogwriter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpblogwriter/),
 * Blocked IP stats shown on the dashboard are collected from Live Traffic. How 
   long they are retained is determined by the Live Traffic setting in your Options(
   1+ days). You can have them automatically removed daily if you set it to one 
   day.
    IPs sent to Wordfence are kept for 90 days unless they are still behaving
   maliciously. They are removed once they stop being malicious or 90 days, whichever
   is later. This data is not anonymized. Kerry
 *  Thread Starter [wpblogwriter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpblogwriter/)
 * (@wpblogwriter)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocked-ips-gdpr/#post-10527368)
 * Thank you for the information.

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 * [IP blocking](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ip-blocking/)

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 * Last reply from: [wpblogwriter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpblogwriter/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocked-ips-gdpr/#post-10527368)
 * Status: resolved