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In Europe, the legal definition of what constitutes personal data is much broader than it is in the United States, extending to information like names, addresses and phone numbers in phone books.
Facebook disagrees, disputing that the inferences its ad platform makes about users (based off of its tracking and data-mining of people) constitutes personal data.
It's also unhappy about the lack of data portability offered; by procedures for deleting data being inadequately explained; and user agreements giving "narrow and vague" definitions of what constitutes personal data, among other criticisms.
The privacy settings of these pages do not sufficiently specify who may have access to the data, and it is not clearly defined what constitutes personal data and what not.
In his opinion, the Advocate General stated that "an IP address stored by a service provider in connection with access to its web page constitutes personal data for that service provider, insofar as an Internet service provider has available additional data which make it possible to identify the data subject" [27].
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"Such information would constitute personal data," Murphy said.
And metadata offers a rich source of inferences about individuals which, under EU law, would certainly constitute personal data.
This view is supported both by the Data Protection Directive Article 29 Working Party, which considers IP addresses to constitute personal data within the meaning of Article 2 a) of the EU Data Protection Directive [21] and the CJEU.
Whilst the sequenced bases themselves constitute personal data, a series of letters is largely irrelevant (unless the series can be used as a unique identifier).gg However, when the relevant interpretative frame is applied to a given set of bases, a number of individual characteristics which are seen to have a genetic basis can be analysed.
The data does not cover living individuals since that may constitute personal information protected by the Data Protection Act.
What exactly constitutes personal identity?
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