IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says
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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.
Germany's data-protection commissioner, Peter Scharr, leads the E.U. group, which is preparing a report on how well the privacy policies of Internet search engines operated by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others comply with E.U. privacy law.
Scharr told a European Parliament hearing on online data protection that when someone is identified by an IP, or Internet protocol, address, "then it has to be regarded as personal data."
Now consider this idea of
Now consider this idea of IP-Address being Personal Data from RIAA point of view.
...[Google] insists an IP address merely identifies the location of a computer, not who the individual user is.
^^ if this is true, then RIAA cannot sue people on the base of IP-Address information.
[Google] does not take into consideration that many people regularly use the same computer and IP address.
^^ if IP-address is personal data, then IMHO even RIAA shouldn't be able to store it ( just as Google )
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