>> visitor IP addresses are anonymized before they are ever stored in Google Analytics..
That applies to data available to GA user. Google of course has access to more detailed data.
That applies to data available to GA user. Google of course has access to more detailed data.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en
You have to trust Google to follow through, but my understanding is this was originally implemented to satisfy German privacy laws, so there's reason to think they take it seriously.
How that impacts logging at their outermost network edge, and whether logs at that level could be feasibly correlated with anything at the application layer, I have no idea. It'd be nice if they clarified that.