Title: GDPR – using analytics
Last modified: April 21, 2018

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# GDPR – using analytics

 *  Resolved [anduin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anduin/)
 * (@anduin)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gdpr-using-analytics/)
 * I want to know – with absolute certainty because of the possible fines coming
   up – that if I use analytics and set ‘anonymize IP address’ – that visitors are
   not possible to identify by any means from the data collected by Google.
    (if
   not – it is not possible to use analytics within EU law)
 * is there anything else to do when you would like to have statistics but legally.

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 *  [WD Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdsupport/)
 * (@wdsupport)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gdpr-using-analytics/#post-10220262)
 * Hi,
 * Please note if this option is enabled, the last digits of users’ IP addresses
   will be hidden. Their full IP will not be visible, and thus the **visitors will
   be anonymized**.
 * Thanks. Have a nice day.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by [WD Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdsupport/).
 *  Thread Starter [anduin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anduin/)
 * (@anduin)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gdpr-using-analytics/#post-10221523)
 * hidden is not the same as deleted – which means that you (or others) can reassemble
   and trace back to idenfify user. which is not legal with the GDPR – anonymized
   to me, but only pseudonomized to you – and that’s not enough. they worry about
   what you know just as much as what I know.
 *  [WD Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdsupport/)
 * (@wdsupport)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gdpr-using-analytics/#post-10225217)
 * Hi,
 * Please note that while the setting is active the Google is not authorizing the
   IP (such a request is being sent to Google). This is not related to the plugin,
   Please see [here](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/ip-anonymization).
 * Thanks. Have a nice day.

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 * [IP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ip/)

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gdpr-using-analytics/#post-10225217)
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