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Knowledge Exchange is offering a web-location; the PURL has been requested by OCLC. The next steps are to put the list online, and make a PURL reference. |
7. Legal boundaries
7.1. Usage of IP addresses and the protection of a 'natural person'
The IP address of the requester is pseudonymised using encryptions, before it is exchanged and taken outside the web-server to another location. Therefore individual users can be recognised when aggregated from distributed repositories, but cannot be referred back to a 'natural person'. This method may seem consisted with the European Act for Protection of Personal data. The summary can be found here: ?http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/information_society/l14012_en.htm. Further legal research needs to be done if this method is sufficient to protect the personal data of a 'natural person', in order to operate within the boundaries of the law.
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