[102039] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Jan 23 18:44:01 2008
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:52:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <877ii0tcxt.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
> If IP addresses don't identify anything, why do they collect and keep
> them?
In the US, folks are fighting the RIAA claiming that an IP address isn't
enough to identify a person.
In Europe, folks are fighting the Google claiming that an IP address is
enough to identify a person.
I guess it depends on which side of the pond you are on.
