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In message <[email protected]>,
Jeremy Rowley <[email protected]> writes

>Wacky court decisions are always a risk. However, the EU has established that 
>data collectors must delete public facing personal information at the 
>information holder's request. 

nope

it says that the data processor must balance the rights of the data
subject with the reason for doing the processing and the legitimate
rights of the public to see the result of that processing

after that balance has been done then it may well be (as in the Costeja
case) that deletion is the correct thing to do. However, in many other
cases the data can remain available (and indeed Google regularly rejects
requests to remove search results).

in this context one might also pay attention to Breyer v Deutschland
(where the court held that dynamic IP addresses were capable of being
personal data) because the judgment also observed that processing IP
addresses in order to keep web servers secure was legitimate...  viz:
even though it's personal data you can still use it provided that your
processing is appropriate

IANAL (but I drink coffee with them regularly)

- -- 
Dr Richard Clayton                               <[email protected]>
Director, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre                mobile: +44 (0)7887 794090
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0FD   tel: +44 (0)1223 763570


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