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Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Wed Jan 23 18:47:26 2008

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Florian Weimer wrote: 
If IP addresses don't identify anything, why do they collect and keep
them?


In the US, folks are fighting the RIAA claiming that an IP address isn't
enough to identify a person.

In Europe, folks are fighting the Google claiming that an IP address is
enough to identify a person.

I guess it depends on which side of the pond you are on.