Does the use of a browser for sending private emails using eg hotmail in an
organisation count as sending an email from that organisation in terms of
contravening Internet Policy?
Answering my own question I can imagine that sending emails to one's mum
would be OK but sending pornographic emails would not. No doubt there are
other issues of how one spends one time at work.
I recently read of someone complaining about not being able to use work
email for job-hunting - well anyone who does that to apply for a job to
another company presumably would disqualify themselves if "discretion" or
"confidentiality" appeared in the Job Spec.
Nick Landau
(It is Friday afternoon)
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From: "Roland Perry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] US Government and Data Retention.
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> [log in to unmask]>, at 10:54:39 on Fri, 9 Jun 2006,
> Tim Trent <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>I picked this up from
>>http://www.complianceandprivacy.com/blogs/Bruce-Schneier-index.html which
>>carries an interesting small selection of blogs. It sent me to the LA
>>Times.http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-internet2jun02,0,622125.story?
>>coll=la-home-headlines I suppose in the UK a "National Defence Exemption"
>>might allow this.
>>
>>The questions in my mind are;
>>
>>Since an IP address is stored with (eg) google every time we search or
>>even
>>access the sit, is the IP address itself sufficient to be "Personal Data"
>>Before you say "no, it's just a number" consider the many millions of
>>gmail
>>users who register their personal data with google, the yahoo users with
>>yahoo, etc. Combining session information from an email session with the
>>data and time of a search session could identify an individual with some
>>precision.
>>
>>Am I just having Friday Paranoia, or could this be a legitimate threat to
>>the privacy of individuals globally? And would it transgress the EC's
>>directives? Does it have similarities to Air Passenger Data transfers in
>>that they now should not happen after September 2006?
>
> IP Addresses are a form of Communications Data. There are laws (in the EU)
> about retention (long standing for business purposes, quite recent for
> anti-terrorism purposes).
>
> Does your IP address identify you? Well it identifies something about the
> network you are using to access the Internet. If you are a 1-person
> network then it's slam-dunk (as I'm told they say in the USA), but local
> networks can get quite complex quite quickly.
>
> It also matters a bit whether or not your IP address is a permanent
> [static] one, or just assigned for a session. It's much easier to
> correlate things happening from permanent IP addresses, but you might
> still need the co-operation of the ISP to find out exactly who it is.
> Session [dynamic] IP addresses are much more difficult to track.
>
> If you also volunteer a logon to a specific site, they can track you very
> easily, of course.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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