On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 22:37 +0530, Sumant Srivathsan wrote: > privacy and copyright laws. And given Google's stand that IPs are not > PII[1], it looks like they will give Viacom the stuff they're looking for.
i'm glad the EU disagrees with google and some other ISPs on this one. IPs along with timestamps are definitely personal identifying data to a high enough degree of probability that they are widely used by law enforcement. google has recently hired about 40 senior people worldwide to work on policy and government interaction at least partly because they've woken up to the fact that there are public interest and policy concerns about parts of what they like doing - but they have, for good reason, ended up making microsoft claim a high moral stand for not storing IP addresses. perhaps this is because MS just wasn't good enough at putting them to use, but MS has done well to turn this bug into a feature... -rishab
