Update the privacy policy

index.md

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ start and not connected in any way to personal identifiable information) to allo
 version. Additionally a rough location from which the request originates will be determined based on the client IP 
 using the [GeoLite2 City database](https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/) and 
 [GeoIP](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-geoip.html).
-The client IP address itself will **not** be tracked.
 
 The plugin fires tracking requests for the following events. Version numbers indicate in which OctoPrint version after
 1.3.10 an event or additional data was added, also for as of yet unreleased versions. Most of the events can be

privacy/index.md

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 layout: page
 title: Privacy Policy
-lastupdate: 2019-06-24 00:00:00 +0000
+lastupdate: 2024-06-27 00:00:00 +0000
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 ## 1. An overview of data protection
@@ -124,10 +124,12 @@ On further processing by the local analysis backend, this gets turned into the f
   * Time of the server request
   * Unique anonymous identifier generated randomly per OctoPrint instance
   * OctoPrint version
+  * IP address
   * GeoIP data for the originating request
   * further unpersonalized data associated with each tracking event, such as print durations.
 
-The IP address gets stripped.
+The IP address used to get stripped, however due to data manipulation by bad actors it turned out to be required
+to be able to filter out bad data within the active tracking period. 
 
 This processed data is deleted after 90 days. It will not be combined with data from other sources.