Question regarding IP

  • justonequestion

    (@justonequestion)


    16 years, 2 months ago

    Hello, to start with I can say that I’m not sure where to post this but after some figuring I wrote my question here, if that’s wrong I apologize.

    I’m just wondering if a blog powered by WordPress is allowed to give out my IP so everyone can see it, when there is absolutly no reason to do so? Atleast here in sweden IP-adresses go under the Privacy Protection Law which in short means there are restrictions around publishing IP-adresses.

    Or does a blog powered by WordPress not have any responsibilty towards WordPress? Where should I go if i want to report a blog powered by WordPress?

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  • Snat

    (@snat)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    You would need to contact the owner of the actual blog itself if it ain’t hosted at wordpress.com.

    Also remember that websites hosted in the likes of the USA very likely have different laws to Sweden so although with Sweden it may be illegal to record the IP address, it may not be do elsewhere.

    And no, the IP addresses normally ain’t public. When you comment, it is recorded so that the admins and see your IP address and that is it. This information is there incase you are spamming or doing something else illegal.

    If you see your IP address posted publicly on a WordPress blog, make sure to see if it is actually recorded into the database or if it is just you that can see it. Some websites public the person IP address to the actual user such as “Welcome, 127.0.0.1”.

    WordPress itself has NO responsibility for any blog hosted using WordPress software. You would need to contact the host itself which you can often find out by doing a reverse DNS lookup of the website IP address.

    I hope I answered your question 🙂

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