Web servers, by default, log all interaction including the IP address of the system that contacted them. Organizations like Spamhaus not only track IP addresses and the abuse they perform, but make that information available to all comers. Often spam-fighting organizations, including recipient ISPs, will report on abuse by specific IPs. It has become standard practice for e-mail systems and security systems to track these IP addresses, partly to note which ones are being abusive. When I send you an e-mail, what you receive includes a set of e-mail headers that shows the IP addresses of every computer along the way, including the computer I used to send the message. So what does it mean to treat IP addresses as personal data? Any system for tracking them by IP address would be unreliable.
Many years ago, back when 2 32 was more than enough for anyone, the notion was that every computer on the Internet would have its own IP address, but the fact that 4,294,967,296 isn’t enough has led large networks, including almost all consumer ISPs, to use DHCP, so users don’t keep their addresses anymore for very long.
Sometimes there are things you can infer about a user from the name, but usually it’s no more informative than the IP address itself. ” The reverse DNS is a unique name that corresponds to that one address.
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You can identify me further by looking up my reverse DNS-in Windows go to the command line and enter “NSLOOKUP. Of course, for almost all individual users this information will relate to their ISP as opposed to themselves. The answer above doesn’t identify me it identifies my ISP and says a little something about how its network is configured. Like domain name whois information, the point of this is to allow others on the network to make contact for official purposes, such as to notify them of security problems emanating from that network. # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN’s WHOIS database.
OrgTechEmail: ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 19:10 I’m on the Verizon FiOS network here, and I ran my outside IP address on the whois service provided by ARIN (the American Registry for Internet Numbers, the body responsible for allocating IP addresses in the United States, Canada, a number of Caribbean and Pacific islands, and Antarctica). For instance, as the article about the EU I linked to notes, “whois” services have developed to identify owners of IP addresses. It’s 25 years now since TCP/IP became the protocol of the Internet (actually it was the Arpanet at the time), and in all that time tools and systems have been developed that begin with the assumption that IP addresses want to be found and want to be identified. This is an example of privacy priorities run amok. This seems to be the fate of the European Union, whose Data Privacy Commission leader recently said that IP addresses are personal data when they are used to identify people. It is possible to go too far in advocating for privacy. Everyone believes in privacy ( except Scott McNealy) we just differ on how much is the right amount.
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