[22907] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Monitoring, Flow Stats (Re: spam whore, norcal-systems)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Wed Feb 3 04:16:56 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 01:05:30 -0800
To: "NorthAm Net Ops Grp List" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Here is something germane to this thread.
>Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 19:42:43 -0500
>From: "vinton g. cerf" <vcerf@MCI.NET>
>Subject: EC Directive on IP Addresses and Privacy
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>I thought this would interest you - these are NOT my words but
>the words of the source of the message to me:
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>"Yesterday, I learned from a very well-placed U.S. Government source that
>European law enforcement officials have told their American counterparts
>that they interpret the E.C. Data Protection Directive as prohibiting
>Internet service providers from maintaining records of users' IP
>addresses unless necessary for service or billing. This position indicates
>that E.C. officials consider both dynamic and static IP addresses to be
>subject to the Directive as "personal data'...relating to an...identifiable
>natural person" under Article 2(a) of the Directive. Therefore, it is
>being interpreted that the European Directive prohibits the retention of
>dynamic IP addresses even by an ISP unless it is used for billing purposes
>(which is rarely the case).
>
>If shared by others in the E.C., the position could have significant
>implications for Internet business models."
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>
>See you at INET'99, San Jose, CA, June 22-25,1999
>http://www.isoc.org/inet99/
>
>
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