[swinog] IP address are now personal data

[jared at puck.nether.net (Jared Mauch)]

This is something that has been expected out of the EU as it relates to PII for a few years now.

- jared

On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Thomas Mangin wrote:

> FYI
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Pascal Gloor <pascal.gloor at spale.com>
>> Date: 8 September 2010 11:25:18 GMT+01:00
>> To: "swinog at swinog.ch" <swinog at swinog.ch>
>> Subject: [swinog] IP address are now personal data
>> 
>> Dear community,
>> 
>> something important for us happened today that may have some impact on our daily business.
>> 
>> Our Federal Court just decided that IP addresses are personal data and the federal law about data protection must also be followed also for IP addresses. Collecting IP adresses for private (corporate) investigation is not legal. Companies like Logistep have to stop their activities imm?diately!
>> 
>> As ISP be carefull not to publish traffic information containing IP addresses.
>> 
>> see you,
>> Pascal
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