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Amberhawk Training Ltd have just launched ‘Hawktalk’ - a new information law blog, which not only provides ‘insight articles’ into the legal ‘niceties’ of Data Protection and FOI, but also brings a touch of humour to the subject matter with some amusing cartoons.
A recent item is a data protection analysis that shows that URLs and IP addresses can become personal data, unambiguously. It means that any individual user of the Internet can, at any time, seek the protection of a data protection regime by providing the necessary identifying details to any organisation that stores their IP address or URL.
Organisations that use such data will have to adjust their procedures to take account of the reality that any subsequent processing of URLs or IP addresses, can be, at any time the processing of personal data. The process puts the internet user in charge of his/her own privacy.
A full legal analysis is presented in the context of the UK’s Data Protection Act and includes advice for service providers, for data subjects, and discusses possible counter arguments. This analysis is valid for countries where the national data protection legislation is based on the Data Protection Directive 95/45/EC or on the OECD Guidelines; Google’s privacy policy suggests that the analysis applies to it.
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