unmanaged wrote:

IP addresses, strings of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday.

Interesting....
So the traceroute to the next hop isn't private? or are all IP Addresses connected to "my" IP Address also private?

Could we be seeing a movement towards a closed Internet?

k wrote:

IP addresses, strings of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday.

hear hear...

For some reason I learned the wrong lesson from our conversation about this. I go to write hear, hear, then I recall the conversation, and I write here, here instead!

Decius wrote:

k wrote:

IP addresses, strings of numbers that identify computers on the Internet, should generally be regarded as personal information, the head of the European Union's group of data privacy regulators said Monday.

hear hear...

For some reason I learned the wrong lesson from our conversation about this. I go to write hear, hear, then I recall the conversation, and I write here, here instead!

Heh, stupid brains. I do that with things too. You think more about the wrong thing, in order to ingrain that it's wrong, but your brain doesn't encode that part, just the repetition. It sucks.