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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal
I'm sorry, but, I have a great deal of difficulty seeing how an IP can be considered personally identifying. For example, in my home, I have static addresses. However, the number of different people using those addresses would, to me, imply that you cannot personally identify anyone based solely on the IP address they are using within my network. Certainly, you cannot say that I initiated all of the packets which came from my addresses. Another example would be a retail store that I work with as a SCUBA Instructor. They also have static IP addresses, but, I would not say that any of the traffic coming from the store is necessarily personally identifiable. Our entire staff (half a dozen instructors, a dozen or so divemasters and AIs, the owner, and at least one other retail assistant) source traffic from within that network. The larger the business, the less identifiable the addresses become, generally. However, even in these ultra-small examples, I don't feel that the addresses are, in themselves, personally identifying. Owen
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