SCARLET EXTENDED SA V. SOCIETE BELGE DES AUTEURS, COMPOSITEURS ET EDITEURS SCRL (SABAM), 24.Nov.2011 (“SCARLET”)

Personal data: IP addresses are protected personal data because they allow the concerned users to be precisely identified. (¶ 51)

It is common ground, first, that the injunction requiring installation of the contested filtering system would involve a systematic analysis of all content and the collection and identification of users’ IP addresses from which unlawful content on the network is sent. Those addresses are protected personal data because they allow those users to be precisely identified.