[anti-abuse-wg] What is Personal information?

Under Dutch (and European) privacy directives, any information that can uniquely distinguish a natural person (ie. NOT 'a business'...) is to be considered 'personal information'. 

So, an IP address CAN be personal information, if the data collector can link it to a person without too much hassle. Think webshops who log your IP at logon, they can connect that to your account data, so in *that* case an IP address is logged by the shop is indeed considered 'personal information' and must be protected by the shop accordingly. In your case with RIPE, your IP address is probably not considered 'personal information'. IANAL.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive. 


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net [mailto:anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net]
> Namens russ at consumer.net
> Verzonden: maandag 16 januari 2012 18:30
> Aan: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net
> Onderwerp: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] What is Personal information?
> 
>  >I think RIPE just wants to prevent abuse done by some egoistic people  >who
> endlessly query the database and/or misuse the service for commercial purpose.
> 
> I have already explained that RIPE says this is not the issue and there is no
> problem with the queries if the "-r" is used.  The issue is the "personal
> information" in the database and the WU and Dutch privacy laws.
> 
> 

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