Anonymisation of Visitor Log

General questions
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Hello!

Is it possible to make the Visitor Log more compliant to GDPR and anonymise Unique Visitor ID and IP-adress?

On your page: https://matomo.org/faq/reports/the-visitor-profile/ you write:

“The Visitor IP (visitIp field) and the Unique Visitor ID (visitorId field) will be displayed in the user interface and returned in the API output only if you are logged in Matomo. For privacy reasons, we do not display the IP or Visitor ID to anonymous users.”

But we would like to be able to delete and not collect Unique Visitor ID and IP-address. Is it possible?

Grateful for any help! Best regards,

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You can anonymize the ip address further in the privacy settings the visitor id is used to distinguish visitors, link visits together. You could randomize the config_ID which would give a new visitorid for every action which would effectively make the visitor log redundant, you would better to just disable the visits log altogether.

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Thank you for your insights and tips! It was very useful.:grinning_face: