Marc Perkel wrote:
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> Chris Lightfoot wrote:
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>>On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 07:02:20AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>>Chris Lightfoot wrote:
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>>>>yes, David is correct; in general, IP addresses may be
>>>>personal data, and therefore must be processed in
>>>>accordance with the data protection principles.
>>>>
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>>>But - repeating myself again - it's not the IP address of the sender's
>>>computer. It's the IP address of the smtp host.
>>>
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>>doesn't matter -- it may still identify a single living
>>individual, and so is personal data.
>>
Not so long as it is stored without any other user-relevant information, it is
not. Even less so than a list of telephone numbers without names would be.
That it may be looked-up in a WHOIS, and *might* (temporarily) relate to a
specific individual, is a separate issue - one covered by the maintainers of
those DB's, which DO store name and address data.
Further, to the extent that a connectiivty-ISP is able, by logged timestamps, to
determine which of their subscribers was on a DHCP-assigned IP at a particular
point in time, is covered under their contract terms. They too, have specific
rights, responsibilities, and restrictions on use/release.
RBL's - historically absent any such linkage, are not a 'privacy' issue, and it
would be legally impractical to try to make them into one.
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>>>However, when you do an RBL looking youare sending the same information
>>>to all the block lists that you use.
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>>obviously you should only do this if you are satisfied
>>that it is legal to do so.
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> If what I'm doing isn't legal then everyone who is using DNS blacklists
> are also brealing the law because they are sending the host IP to the
> blacklist to be tested. I'm not doing here anything that everyone else
> isn't doing.
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Not an Exim issue in any case.
Let's drop it or take it elsewhere.
What *is* an on-thread issue is that the RBL's Marc has proposed aren't testing
out as doing anything sufficently new or useful in Exim to attract improvement
effort.
Bill
