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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

You sure about that? They have a legal obligation to keep this trace, and it sounds like it would easily qualify as a legitimate interest. We're not talking about some third party logging a visitor's IP, but an ISP, that have a requirement to keep this information.

The GDPR isn't making all personal identification data inaccessible, they restrict how they can be stored and accessed. If there's a legal requirement and/or a legitimate interest, they can be stored, and if the data exists and is requested by law enforcement, it's likely that higher agreements will hold.