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One way if you have a salt? Enumerating won’t help, you need to know the salt, which gets deleted.

That said, the whole IP thing is weird to me. Not only are we allowed to log IPs directly for security reasons, we even *have* to log IPs in certain cases (newsletter subscriptions).



> That said, the whole IP thing is weird to me. Not only are we allowed to log IPs directly for security reasons, we even have to log IPs in certain cases (newsletter subscriptions).

The point of designating something as PII isn't that we then _never_ store or use it, it's to carefully consider if we actually need it or not (and what protections we can add for the values we do need to store/use).

We're meant to stop the practice of just collecting and storing all data, without consideration for the harms that causes.




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