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Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:33:20 -0800
On Jan 24, 2008, at 8:55 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
In order to be using the license plate, you had to be physically present in the car.On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:39:53 PST, fred () cisco com said:What we can do with IP addresses is conclude that the user of the machine with an address is likely to be one of its usual users. We can't say that with 100% certainty, because there are any number of ways people can get "unusual" access. But even so, if one can show a pattern of usage, the usual suspects can probably figure out which of them, or what other "unusual" user, might have done this or that.And oddly enough, license plates on cars act *exactly the same way* - but nobody seems at all surprised when police can work backwards from a plate and come up with a suspect (who, admittedly, may not have been involved ifthe car was borrowed/stolen/etc).
You can work backwards from a phone number to a person, without a *guarantee*In order to be on the telephone number, you (almost always) need to be presentthat you have the right person - but I don't see anybody claiming thatphone numbers don't qualify as "personal information" under the EU definition.
at the site where that phone number is terminated.I don't know about your IP addresses, but, people can use my IP addresses from a number of locations which are nowhere near the jurisdiction in which my network operates, so, I don't really see the correlation here with license
plates or phone numbers. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal, (continued)
- 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 Joseph S D Yao (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)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Hank Nussbacher (Jan 25)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Matt Palmer (Jan 25)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Roland Perry (Jan 25)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Andy Davidson (Jan 25)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Roland Perry (Jan 25)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jan 25)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Owen DeLong (Jan 25)
- Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal Roland Perry (Jan 25)