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		freeone3000 on May 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Welcome to Libera Chat What personal data are you actually sending to the IRC server? They can associate your IP with your Nick, and that's... It. I suppose chat logs are also your data? And the results of the port scans, if those are saved? But this seems honestly less than what the average website visit sends out

SamBam on May 19, 2021 | [–]

Associating everything you've ever written with your IP is a pretty big one, if there was ever any expectation of anonymity.

euroclear on May 19, 2021 | | [–]

It would include your email address if you register with NickServ.

wlonkly on May 20, 2021 | [–]

An IP address, alone, is considered PII under GDPR.

https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/personal-data/

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