- Volume 3 (2017), Issue 1
- Vol. 3 (2017), No. 1
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- Pages 130 - 137
- pp. 130 - 137
The Breyer Case of the Court of Justice of the European Union: IP Addresses and the Personal Data Definition
Case C-582/14 Patrick Breyer v Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Court of Justice of the European Union, 19 October 2016, not yet published, ECLI:EU:C:2016:779
A dynamic IP address of a website visitor is a piece of personal data for a website publisher, if the publisher has the legal means to identify the visitor, with the help of additional information held by the visitor’s Internet access provider.
Article 2(h) and Article 7(f) of the Data Protection Directive