EU Official: IP Is Personal
Joe Greco
jgreco at ns.sol.net
Wed Jan 23 22:29:46 UTC 2008
> Paul Vixie wrote:
> > hank at efes.iucc.ac.il (Hank Nussbacher) writes:
> >> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g08qkYTaNhLlscXKMnS3V8dkc-WwD8UAGH900
> >
> > they say it's personally identifiable information, not personal property.
> > EU's concern is the privacy implications of data that google and others
> > are saving, they are not making a statement related to address ownership.
>
> Correct. In the EU DP framework (see:
> [...]
> P. S. How many bits in the mask are necessary to achieve the non-PII aim?
So, this could be basically a matter of dredging up someone with a /25
allocated to them personally, in the EU service area. I think I know
some people like that.
I know for a fact that I know people with swamp C's here in the US. That
would seem to set the bar higher than a mere 7 bits.
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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