Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Structured logging/IP address and other personal identifying information

Is there any technical reason to keep actual IPs as data points of structured logging entries? The Internet Archive replaced them with hashes generated with a daily key. Especially for operations logs, hashes should be more than enough (if a day is too frequent, make it a week or whatever).

Privacy in this case is not just a philosophical matter but also a very practical one: the less private information a log contains, the easier it is to distribute it, have more eyeballs checking it and identify problems quickly.