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Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

  • From: Lou Katz
  • Date: Wed Jan 23 19:57:40 2008 
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:52:41PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

They are both right. If you have a dynamic IP such as most college students
have, it is here-today-gone-tomorrow.

If you have static IP (business, us slugs in the Swamp, etc) you are identifyable.
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