EU official: IP is personal
BRUSSELS, Belgium - IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday.
protection commissioner, Peter Scharr, leads the EU group preparing a report on how well the privacy policies of Internet search engines operated by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others comply with EU privacy law. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080121/...line_privacy_4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E.U. privacy experts say that your individual I.P. address should be regarded as personal information protected by EU Law. I am not sure law enforcement would agree when they try to follow your movements on the internet. |
Re: EU official: IP is personal
Originally Posted by kingfisher241049
(Post 5820338)
BRUSSELS, Belgium - IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday.
protection commissioner, Peter Scharr, leads the EU group preparing a report on how well the privacy policies of Internet search engines operated by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others comply with EU privacy law. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080121/...line_privacy_4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E.U. privacy experts say that your individual I.P. address should be regarded as personal information protected by EU Law. I am not sure law enforcement would agree when they try to follow your movements on the internet. |
Re: EU official: IP is personal
Originally Posted by ugacrew
(Post 5820390)
Such a waste of time. IP addresses are dynamic in nature anyway and can be spoofed. Hell, I can have an address from Tokyo if I wanted to fool them via an anonymizer. They should pay more attention to MAC addresses. Those never change despite there being logical methods of changing it.
IP adresses dymanic in nature? Hummm, well from an end user perspective I guess you could say that but if you were tracking information from companies servers definatly not. |
Re: EU official: IP is personal
Originally Posted by ex_exile
(Post 5820444)
You can change mac addresses too
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Re: EU official: IP is personal
I agree with that. They can be used to identify users. Sure they can be spoofed, but lots of information can also be forged.
Many users have static IP addresses. I don't want Yahoo using the fact that I looked at Toyota's sales web site 20 times last month to start pushing me adverts for car loans :curse:
Originally Posted by kingfisher241049
(Post 5820338)
BRUSSELS, Belgium - IP addresses, string of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday.
protection commissioner, Peter Scharr, leads the EU group preparing a report on how well the privacy policies of Internet search engines operated by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others comply with EU privacy law. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080121/...line_privacy_4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E.U. privacy experts say that your individual I.P. address should be regarded as personal information protected by EU Law. I am not sure law enforcement would agree when they try to follow your movements on the internet. |
Re: EU official: IP is personal
Originally Posted by ugacrew
(Post 5820390)
Such a waste of time. IP addresses are dynamic in nature anyway and can be spoofed. Hell, I can have an address from Tokyo if I wanted to fool them via an anonymizer. They should pay more attention to MAC addresses. Those never change despite there being logical methods of changing it.
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Re: EU official: IP is personal
Originally Posted by Pony
(Post 5820494)
I agree with that. They can be used to identify users. Sure they can be spoofed, but lots of information can also be forged.
Many users have static IP addresses. I don't want Yahoo using the fact that I looked at Toyota's sales web site 20 times last month to start pushing me adverts for car loans :curse: * The question is of course did they collect the infomstion from you in Europe or did you give the infomation to their servers in Bermuda. |
Re: EU official: IP is personal
Originally Posted by Roland Hulme
(Post 5820538)
Your computer hacker skills are hot. :wub:
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Re: EU official: IP is personal
Originally Posted by ugacrew
(Post 5820589)
Gosh I wish I could hack. That would be such a cool thing to do
<-------> Am I making you hotter?;) |
Re: EU official: IP is personal
Originally Posted by ugacrew
(Post 5820589)
Am I making you hotter?;)
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Re: EU official: IP is personal
Originally Posted by ex_exile
(Post 5820648)
Now if you could you just subnet in IPv6 you'd be the perfect woman :rofl:
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Re: EU official: IP is personal
Originally Posted by ugacrew
(Post 5820680)
I have enough problems subnetting a 32bit address. You want me to subnet a 128bit one??? You've got to be out of your f***ing mind:D. If you wanna talk about CIDR then let's party. In the meantime I'll be a smart woman and let an IPv6 subnetting calculator do my work. This woman has her hair and make-up to do.:D
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