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Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:35:41 -0800
I'm sorry, but, I have a great deal of difficulty seeing how an IP can be considered
personally identifying.For example, in my home, I have static addresses. However, the number of different people using those addresses would, to me, imply that you cannot
personally identify anyone based solely on the IP address they are usingwithin my network. Certainly, you cannot say that I initiated all of the packets
which came from my addresses.Another example would be a retail store that I work with as a SCUBA Instructor. They also have static IP addresses, but, I would not say that any of the traffic coming from the store is necessarily personally identifiable. Our entire
staff (half a dozen instructors, a dozen or so divemasters and AIs, theowner, and at least one other retail assistant) source traffic from within
that network.The larger the business, the less identifiable the addresses become, generally. However, even in these ultra-small examples, I don't feel that the addresses
are, in themselves, personally identifying. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal, (continued)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Fred Baker (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Roland Perry (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Eric Brunner-Williams (Jan 23)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Eric Gauthier (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Jeff McAdams (Jan 24)
- RE: EU Official: IP Is Personal Rod Beck (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Scott McGrath (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Scott Francis (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Robin Stevens (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal J. Oquendo (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Owen DeLong (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Joel Jaeggli (Jan 24)
- The EU's and Google's official positions (was: EU Official: IP Is Personal) michael.dillon (Jan 25)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Roland Perry (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Joe Greco (Jan 23)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Owen DeLong (Jan 24)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 24)