[102037] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Wed Jan 23 18:07:46 2008
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: brunner@nic-naa.net (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:29:46 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <47979B50.1080104@nic-naa.net> from "Eric Brunner-Williams" at Jan 23, 2008 11:53:52 AM
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Paul Vixie wrote:
> > hank@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
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With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
