Full Disclosure

[PeteM]

Joel Harrison wrote  on 30-04-08 06:54:
> access to the ISP's logs.  It is also arguable that even static IP
> addresses aren't personal data in the search engine's hands, because
> the search engine may swear blind that it would never, ever run an IP
> Whois lookup against the IP address and derive the necessary
> information about the person to whom the IP address is allocated.

But in general a WHOIS will only return the ISP who owns the address 
block, not the individual subscriber's name, so the search engine can't 
  identify him. Unless it has other information linked to that IP 
address to which it can cross-reference.

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Pete Mitchell