I think it's far too early to jump into conclusions right now. The court didn't even state it's reasons in detail. As far as I understand it right now, this does only mean one has to take care about data that contains ip addresses - but not, that such data processing would be a legal problem at all...
Juerg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Pascal Gloor > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 4:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [swinog] IP address are now personal data > > I'm trying to make a list of all possible implications/problems that this > ruling can make. Please send me a direct mail with your questions and I will > forward them to a good lawyer (actually, the one involved in that case). > > So far, questions/implications I've seen or came to me are: > > --- > > Any statistics tool those results are public and contains IP addresses > (webalizer for example). > > This case if clear to me, no need to argue. You can't publish the IPs. Ensure > that you set the correct option to avoid that part of the stats or maybe > there's an anonymizer flag, or maybe, don't make them public. > > --- > > Wikipedia, if hosted in Switzerland, cannot publish anymore the IP of > anonymous editors. > > This is also a very clear case, you link the IP with an activity and are > therefor protected by the law. > > --- > > Whatever Blacklists without consent of the admin of the IP.. > > That's an open question, these blacklists are often listing services IP (not > personal computers with humans behind). I'm thinking about anti-spam > blacklist, like that SwiNOG one!! I will clear that point with the lawyer. > > --- > > Complete this list please, I want to be sure we can answer all questions at > one. Maybe I'll setup a page to help people to understand the implications. > > > Pascal > > _______________________________________________ > swinog mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
