@MadaraUchiha Please, an IP address is only considered personal information if it can only be mapped to a single person. That's under European and US law.
Adnan did not break any rules here. This is almost the same thing as user X revealing their IP directly and then someone else sharing it. If you allow arbitrary domains to open on your browser, your IP is forfeit to anyone who wants to pick it up on a site like this. Deal with it.
@Adnan Rly all went past a bit quick and I was reviewing a report, I thought the natives just had a comment related to whether it was a nice thing to do not whether it was a rules issue....
@ManishEarth interestingly, the EU are heading towards legistation where if EU data is processed they're likely to want the company processing it to comply with EU law...
@ManishEarth but they aren't sure yet how they are going to make you comply with that law. Probably it will be like FATCA, if you have a company in the EU, but you are also having branches in other countries, those branches will have to comply with the EU standards
This idea that "its trivial and low tech to do so it's allowed" doesn't wash. "Your using a browser so your IP is public" is equivalent to saying "Your OS has a remote code execution bug so all your private files are public". CAN and SHOULD are two different things. People who can't tell the difference are commonly known as skript kiddies. That's me out.
@ManishEarth Companies are also to make sure that if they pass personal data to third party countries outside the EU that these comply with that standard :p (liability)
@lynks well not quite... one is an active attack one is passive info. gathering... I think it's a gap between what people think they have in terms of privacy and the reality. In reality every website you visit gathers all that info about you (IP address and browser settings) and can use it in any way they like...
@Simon Disappointed she didn't. Was positively surprised about somebody actually taking technical steps to protect their identity instead of just complaining.
@lynks While I agree, it has to be said that Kalina is a troll herself that seems to claim she wants unlimited privacy but can't even protect information about her which was gathered passively.
@RoryM I'm actually a little bumbed you unstarred that message. Honestly, this incident is has nothing personal with that girl at all. I'm not even one bit annoyed by her.