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Ip Addresses And Personal Data: K.U. V Finland, Karen Mccullagh
Ip Addresses And Personal Data: K.U. V Finland, Karen Mccullagh
Karen McCullagh
Classifying IP addresses as personal data could have serious implications for search engines and many other electronic businesses, in particular, the personalised advertising business model of the Internet. Recent court decisions have not clarified the position, so businesses that log IP addresses should proceed with caution.
What Is 'Private' Data?, Karen Mccullagh
What Is 'Private' Data?, Karen Mccullagh
Karen McCullagh
The development of a frontier-free Internal Market and of the so-called 'information society' have resulted in an increase in the flow of personal data between EU Member States. To remove potential obstacles to such transfers data protection legislation was introduced. One of the underpinning principles of Directive 95/46/EC is the protection of privacy. Yet, the legislation does not provide a conclusive understanding of the terms ‘privacy’ or ‘private’ data. Rather, privacy protection is to be achieved through the regulation of the conditions under which personal data may be processed. An assessment of whether, 10 years after the enactment of the …