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6 June 2012 at 10:10am

IP Addresses and Data Protection

Andrew Cormack
Access Management
Data Protection Regulation
Privacy
copyright
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An Occasionally Asked Question (an OAQ?) is "are IP addresses personal data?". That question is probably too broad to ever get a simple answer, but a recent decision by the Irish High Court  (EMI Records & Others v Eircom Ltd [2010] IEHC 108) has at least answered the related question "are logs indexed by IP address always personal data?".
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6 June 2012 at 9:58am

European Internet Resilience

Andrew Cormack
CSIRT
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The House of Lords has now published its report on the EC Communication on Protecting Europe Against Large Scale Cyber-Attacks.
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6 June 2012 at 9:54am

RIPA and unread messages

Andrew Cormack
Interception
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
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An interesting comment in the Guardian today suggests that the Government may be reviewing the current definition of interception law that makes a significant legal distinction between read and unread messages.
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6 June 2012 at 9:45am

House of Lords looks at network resilience and CERTs

Andrew Cormack
CSIRT
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On Tuesday I was invited with Chris Gibson of FIRST to give evidence to the Home Affairs Sub-Committee of the European Affairs Committee of the House of Lords. They are currently looking at the European Commission's proposals to protect Europe from large-scale Cyberattacks.
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