Fwd: [swinog] IP address are now personal data
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From: Pascal Gloor <pascal.gloor@spale.com> Date: 8 September 2010 11:25:18 GMT+01:00 To: "swinog@swinog.ch" <swinog@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 immédiately!
As ISP be carefull not to publish traffic information containing IP addresses.
see you, Pascal
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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:
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From: Pascal Gloor <pascal.gloor@spale.com> Date: 8 September 2010 11:25:18 GMT+01:00 To: "swinog@swinog.ch" <swinog@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 immédiately!
As ISP be carefull not to publish traffic information containing IP addresses.
see you, Pascal
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On 2010-09-08 14:56, Jared Mauch wrote:
This is something that has been expected out of the EU as it relates to PII for a few years now.
Fortunately Switzerland is NOT part of the European Union, even though it seems there are a lot of influences and political pulls.... Court verdict (german): http://www.bger.ch/index/press/press-inherit-template/press-mitteilungen.htm... Greets, Jeroen
On Sep 8, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
On 2010-09-08 14:56, Jared Mauch wrote:
This is something that has been expected out of the EU as it relates to PII for a few years now.
Fortunately Switzerland is NOT part of the European Union, even though it seems there are a lot of influences and political pulls....
Sorry for dragging you into some of the other European folks policy chats... (But I've been expecting a decision of this sort out of the EU, and other pan-european nations for about 2-3 years).
Court verdict (german): http://www.bger.ch/index/press/press-inherit-template/press-mitteilungen.htm...
This looks a bit more limited than I originally thought, it seems (unless I'm misreading it) the issue has more to do with disclosure (to end-user) that they were being investigated. (similar to having your home be searched by police when you are not around and them not leaving a copy of the warrant, nor any hints your home has been searched). - Jared
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