Data held by ISPs

[Mark Harrison]

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IP addresses (of the subscriber) are personal data.

Although it's taken a long time for this to be nailed into law (rather than
denied by the MRD brigade).
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I'm surprised. IP addresses from ISP's are shared. They are rarely given to
end devices but rather routers that are also shared. How could they be
classed as identifiable? To whom under the law?

On 19 December 2014 at 13:16, Roland Perry <lists at internetpolicyagency.com>
wrote:

> In article <A5423792-2D7C-43A0-8C36-BBD52C9DA885 at batten.eu.org>, Ian
> Batten <igb at batten.eu.org> writes
>
>> I'm not an expert on this subject but I agree that the correct route
>>> would be a SAR. I would be interested in seeing the detail in the logs.
>>> How identifiable would they be in native form? I guess if its anything
>>> like normal proxy logs they would only log the IP address and activity
>>> (poss MAC) in which case they would need to then identify who add that
>>> IP address and at what time from DHCP logs.
>>>
>>
>> In what sense is any of that personal data which would fall under the
>> Data Protection Act?
>>
>
> IP addresses (of the subscriber) are personal data.
>
> Although it's taken a long time for this to be nailed into law (rather
> than denied by the MRD brigade).
> --
> Roland Perry
>
>
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