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:

> FYI
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Pascal Gloor <pascal.gl...@spale.com>
>> Date: 8 September 2010 11:25:18 GMT+01:00
>> To: "swi...@swinog.ch" <swi...@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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