EU Aims to Clarify Legal Status of IP Addresses

During discussions this week regarding Google's plan to buy DoubleClick, a European Parliament committee considered whether an IP address is legally private.

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"Google will have to respect all the obligations of DoubleClick, including its data protection obligations," the official said. If the two databases are to be used for the same purposes, then they would be deemed compatible and could merge. "But if there was an incompatibility between the two databases, then they couldn't be merged," he said.

The European Parliament's civil liberties committee said it would be holding more seminars to examine the issues surrounding data protection in the months and years to come.
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