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title: "GDPR Recital 30: Online Identifiers for Profiling and Identification"
url: "https://www.engagecompliance.co/law/gdpr/recital-30"
type: "legal-text"
date: ""
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# GDPR Recital 30: Online Identifiers for Profiling and Identification

Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and other information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them.

## Articles this recital explains

- [Article 4](https://www.engagecompliance.co/law/gdpr/article-4): Definitions

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