I know. It’s a bit of an old chestnut, but the matter of whether an IP address is personally identifiable information came up again over at CircleID a month or so ago.
I don’t normally cheer for Google when I don’t own shares in the company, but this time I will make an exception.
Alma Whitten, Software Engineer at Google, today posted to their Public Policy Blog that IP addresses shouldn’t be considered Personally Identifiable Information (PII). This is not a problem in the United States but it is in the EU, and if the EU actually were to legislate this it would most definitely affect Microsoft and Google’s business functionality in the EU.
In the IPv4 universe*, it has long been my view that an IP address cannot be considered personally identifiable, because public IP addresses are almost always shared and because very many of them are also allocated dynamically.
OK. Given that, so far, Terry Zink (author of that CircleID piec...
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Post Date: 2008-03-04 05:11:43
The Torygraph reports , and El Reg expands (1) on the unfortunate case of a chap whose wife is said to have cost him £11,000 in international roaming charges for data connectivity (presumably UMTS), by downloading four episodes of Friends (2) using his laptop.
A wife inadvertently cost her husband £11,000 after downloading four episodes of US sitcom Friends using his laptop, according to the Telegraph newspaper.
The chap flew to Germany where his machine connec...
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Post Date: 2008-03-04 03:05:11
I think my earlier issue may be solved . It seems that I had only managed to download the IBM Lotus Notes Client 8.0.1 and not the IBM Lotus Notes, Designer and Administrator 8.0.1 Clients before my access to Passport online was revoked .
Never fear.
Passport is back.
It seems it’s been taking a shower, and now it is clean, refreshed and sporting a new feature named "download step by step".
This is very welcome. The old download finder was extremely difficult to use. Just t...
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Post Date: 2008-03-05 05:46:39
Here’s a picture for you.
That is what I see in my Notes status bar when I run my newly installed Notes 8.0.1 basic configuration client. It shows that I have successfully logged in to Sametime.
When I start Notes 8.0.1 (Eclipse), the story is a little different.
Same Sametime server. Same settings. Well, similar settings, given their redistribution and inconsistent nomenclature between the two UIs.
The Eclipse client is set to connect automatically, using...
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