[governance] IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says

[Karl Auerbach]

yehudakatz at mailinator.com wrote:
> IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says
> 
> The Washington Post

> BRUSSELS -- IP addresses, strings of numbers that identify computers on the
> Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information

If that is the case then one must question whether an ISP or core 
provider's use of a person's IP address to generate a TCP Reset packet 
(for the purpose of, for example, "slowing" bittorrent traffic) is a 
usurpation of that personally identifiable information.

		--karl--
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