Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-4812386-20130702001358/@comment-4196050-20130713115500

Mark Otaris wrote: To be honest, it's really ridiculous to consider IP addresses as personal information. Every single website you visit could take your IP and keep it in its server logs forever. Many websites actually do so. IP addresses are public addresses that identify people on the internet; they were never meant to be "private". They're required to get networks working properly, they just *can't* be made private because then there would be no way to identify what computer a server is having a connection with. They were always meant to be public because their whole purpose is to allow computer networks to identify other computers. But don't IP addresses display your general location (the most specific mine went down to was the city), and under COPAA, revealing your state/city is considered to be personal information. I understand the logic behind this update to the law, but it is simply impratical. At least this discussion is making me rethink back to my honors government class... though I rarely thought in it.