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

[McTim]

On 1/24/08, Andrea Glorioso <andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> >>>>> "Karl" == Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> writes:
>
>    > 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.
>
> I am surprised that this point raised so many eyebrows (not
> particularly on this list, but on other ones that I follow).
>
> First of all, the opinion of Scharr - which is actually the opinion of
> the Working Party 29 (WP29) which is composed of the data protection
> officers of all EU member states - is advisory only and does not have
> the force of binding law.


IANAL, so is this "binding"?

http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/Treaties/HTML/185.htm

Article 18

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McTim
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