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IP address
noun
a code that identifies a computer network or a particular computer or other device on a network, consisting of four numbers separated by periods.
IP address
noun
computing internet protocol address: the numeric code that identifies all computers that are connected to the internet
IP address
The numerical sequence that serves as an identifier for an Internet server. An IP address appears as a series of four groups of numbers separated by dots. The first group is a number between 1 and 255 and the other groups are a number between 0 and 255, such as 192.135.174.1. Every server has its own unique address.
Example Sentences
The account was in the name of Jamie_jones6968 who claimed to be a schoolboy in England, but the IP address of the account which sent the messages was traced to Clark.
For apps that work across various phones and platforms, there are all sorts of dangerous privacy intrusions; if your computer or smartphone sends its IP address, location data, photographs, or other user-identifying info to a program’s centralized server, you can imagine that Homeland Security will take advantage of that.
These details along with someone's IP address - the unique identifier used by internet devices - were previously prohibited by Google for ad targeting.
But opponents to the change say fingerprinting and IP address collection are a blow to privacy because it is harder for users to control what data is collected about them.
Marcos Gonzalez of St. Andrew Church in Pasadena says that after the fire, an email soliciting donations went out under Gonzalez’s name — but from an IP address in the United Kingdom.
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