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Fwd: [swinog] IP address are now personal data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Mangin)
Wed Sep 8 07:16:12 2010
From: Thomas Mangin <thomas.mangin@exa-networks.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:15:57 +0100
To: "nanog@nanog.org Operators Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
FYI
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Pascal Gloor <pascal.gloor@spale.com>
> Date: 8 September 2010 11:25:18 GMT+01:00
> To: "swinog@swinog.ch" <swinog@swinog.ch>
> Subject: [swinog] IP address are now personal data
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> Dear community,
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> something important for us happened today that may have some impact on =
our daily business.
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> Our Federal Court just decided that IP addresses are personal data and =
the federal law about data protection must also be followed also for IP =
addresses. Collecting IP adresses for private (corporate) investigation =
is not legal. Companies like Logistep have to stop their activities =
imm=E9diately!
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> As ISP be carefull not to publish traffic information containing IP =
addresses.
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> see you,
> Pascal
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