[129485] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [swinog] IP address are now personal data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Sep 8 08:56:55 2010
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <F49F4EF3-9A51-4769-BEF4-DF9EF3C1E120@exa-networks.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 08:56:35 -0400
To: Thomas Mangin <thomas.mangin@exa-networks.co.uk>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org Operators Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
This is something that has been expected out of the EU as it relates to =
PII for a few years now.
- jared
On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Thomas Mangin wrote:
> FYI
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>> 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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