Re: Monitoring, Flow Stats (Re: spam whore, norcal-systems)

["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
> X-Sender: vcerf () shoe reston mci net
> To: "ISOC Members Discussion" <isoc-members-discuss () lyris isoc org>
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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:
>
>
>
> "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." 
> =================================================================
>
> See you at INET'99, San Jose, CA, June 22-25,1999 
> http://www.isoc.org/inet99/


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