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The report explained that using these tactics it was not hard to get a "glimpse into the kind of portrait that authorities could be able to paint of individuals without needing to obtain prior judicial authorization." It got all kinds of information back, such as all the other entries that person had edited, and the fact that the person had visited an online message board related to sexual preferences. The OPC also did a second experiment where it looked up the IP address of a person that had edited a Wikipedia entry (these IP addresses are public), then entered that IP address into a search engine.

The revision history of a Wikipedia entry.

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While this may give geolocation data about the general area of your router, it will not give a street address. Instead they'll probably see the information of your ISP. But the good news is, because you are connected to a network and it's the network's IP address being shared, your precise location is not shared.įor instance, you may send an email from your home, and someone may be able to know the city from which it was sent, but it’s highly unlikely they’ll be able to access any other granular information about you.

This most personal kind of information that can be shared in IP address itself is geolocation. What sort of personal information is shared with an IP address?

All the same, whether someone knows the address of your computer or your network, these numbers are able to tell a bit about who you are and what kind of sites you surf. When you send an email or visit a website, the IP address being shared is that of your local router - provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) - and not the individual address assigned to your computer.