EU Official: IP Is Personal
Mikael Abrahamsson
swmike at swm.pp.se
Thu Jan 24 01:09:59 UTC 2008
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Lou Katz wrote:
> They are both right. If you have a dynamic IP such as most college students
> have, it is here-today-gone-tomorrow.
The local antipiracy organization in Sweden needed a permit to
collect/handle IP+timestamp and save it in their database, as this
information was regarded as personal information. Since ISPs regularily
save who has an IP at what time, IP+timestamp can be used to discern at
least what access port a certain IP was at, or in case of PPPoE etc, what
account was used to obtain the IP that that time.
I still think IP+timestamp doesn't imply what person did something,
license plate information tracking is also considered personal information
even though it says nothing about who drove the car at that time, and I
think IP+timestamp is approximately on the same level as a car license
plate when it comes to level of personal information.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike at swm.pp.se
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