-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 16/12/2011 21:32, russ@consumer.net wrote:
I received a few private e-mails from people on this list claiming i am all wrong about IP addresses being classified as personal information. I did not make this ruling, it was a 2008 proclamation by the EU Data Commission.
The law is meant to be interpreted with a degree of subtlety. ISPs and mail providers are generally allowed to process IP addresses if it's in their legitimate interest (we'd not get very far otherwise). Dealing with spam or running an incident response function is thought to lie within this realm. The risk of being able to identify an individual starting with an IP address listed in a black list is very small, and the impact very small, but the benefits from publishing them should be very clear. If you'd like to learn more, our legal and regulatory officer wrote a paper on these issues at http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-csirt/publications/data-protection-v2.pd... Regards, James - -- James Davis 0300 999 2340 (+44 1235 822340) Senior CSIRT Member Lumen House, Library Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0SG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAk7u8ycACgkQjsS2Y6D6yLxbawD+OAUlE2LW/AWUSz3ivT69AJ7H AsNLcxv+T/ZM2L7MkssA/ibp1oqn3+QhyEM/zn3h29ZGpHTF/Zpj/8APaidMoNQN =Xok5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- JANET(UK) is a trading name of The JNT Association, a company limited by guarantee which is registered in England under No. 2881024 and whose Registered Office is at Lumen House, Library Avenue, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11 0SG