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Re: [swinog] IP address are now personal data

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Sep 8 09:27:16 2010

From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <4C878C37.9080806@unfix.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:26:57 -0400
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org Operators Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Sep 8, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> On 2010-09-08 14:56, Jared Mauch wrote:
>> This is something that has been expected out of the EU as it relates
>> to PII for a few years now.
>=20
> Fortunately Switzerland is NOT part of the European Union, even though
> it seems there are a lot of influences and political pulls....

Sorry for dragging you into some of the other European folks policy =
chats...

(But I've been expecting a decision of this sort out of the EU, and =
other pan-european
nations for about 2-3 years).

> Court verdict (german):
> =
http://www.bger.ch/index/press/press-inherit-template/press-mitteilungen.h=
tm?id=3Dtf1

This looks a bit more limited than I originally thought, it seems =
(unless I'm misreading it)
the issue has more to do with disclosure (to end-user) that they were =
being investigated.

(similar to having your home be searched by police when you are not =
around and them
 not leaving a copy of the warrant, nor any hints your home has been =
searched).

- Jared=


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