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

[yehudakatz at mailinator.com]

For that matter any malicious use of the 'control bits' ['RST' or 'SYN': TCP
reset attacks & SYN attacks] of a "Personal-Address" that induces
route flapping which leeds to route dampening/suppression, etc...
could be subject of too Cyber-Tort.

It will be interesting to see if the Law gets on the E.U.'s books. WE should
talk, the U.S. has a lot of Laws that on-the-books
which were meant to 'bam-boozle' the Public, in order to do the right thing.


Mr. Scharr's (Peter Scharr, leads the E.U. group / Germany's data-protection
commissioner) heart is in the right place,
he just need some help with the 'science'. You have to start somewhere,
more-power-to him, at least he's thinking about it. 
I just wish our Politicians would get off their dead-asses and think.

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