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

- Type: Case Law
- Source: CJEU
- Date: 2011-11-24
- Original: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62010CJ0070&ref=6175
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/6175
- Topics: Personal Data, IP Address, Identification, Illegal Content Definition and Classification

## Summary

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

## Full text

## Court Summary

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

## Excerpt

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.

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