IP addresses don’t identify people

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A federal judge in Seattle has ruled IP addresses aren’t personal information. Rather, an IP address, “identifies a computer,” US district court judge Richard Jones has decided. His ruling followed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, “stemming from an update that automatically installed new anti-piracy software,” says Wendy Davis in Online Media Daily .