[102047] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Jan 23 20:34:43 2008
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:09:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20080124004455.GA64360@metron.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Lou Katz wrote:
> They are both right. If you have a dynamic IP such as most college students
> have, it is here-today-gone-tomorrow.
The local antipiracy organization in Sweden needed a permit to
collect/handle IP+timestamp and save it in their database, as this
information was regarded as personal information. Since ISPs regularily
save who has an IP at what time, IP+timestamp can be used to discern at
least what access port a certain IP was at, or in case of PPPoE etc, what
account was used to obtain the IP that that time.
I still think IP+timestamp doesn't imply what person did something,
license plate information tracking is also considered personal information
even though it says nothing about who drove the car at that time, and I
think IP+timestamp is approximately on the same level as a car license
plate when it comes to level of personal information.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
