Take 2: Personal data and dynamic IPs – time for clarity?

Damian Clifford and Jessica Schroers, legal researchers at KU Leuven, look at whether dynamic IP addresses fall within the scope of European Data Protection legislation given the identifiability of users based on the processing of IP addresses. In this post, they examine the written submissions and the hearing of the the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which provide some direction on whether dynamic IP addresses can be interpreted as personal data.