Title: IP anonymization in logging
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# IP anonymization in logging

 *  Resolved [carbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carbeck/)
 * (@carbeck)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-anonymization-in-logging/)
 * Germany considers IP addresses personal information, so logging it comes with
   very strict legal constraints now, apparently. It would be nice if there were
   a way to not log IPs of visitors, but to discard the information after checking
   an IP’s country of origin. After all, I still want to keep all those Chinese 
   and Ukrainian spam and hacking bots out – it’s really sad enough that this is
   necessary at all.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-anonymization-in-logging/#post-5544319)
 * Is an IP address on itself considered personal information or together with other
   personal info?
 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-anonymization-in-logging/#post-5544331)
 * The next version of this plugin will have an option to stop logging the IP addresses.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ip-anonymization-in-logging/#post-5544331)
 * Status: resolved