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The chief advisor for the European Court of Justice has declared that dynamic IP addresses are tantamount to personal data and should be protected [zdnet.com] under Europe's privacy laws.

The opinion, issued by Advocate General Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, is online but has yet to be translated into English. The advocate general's opinions are non-binding but they typically dictate how the European Court of Justice will rule.

Sánchez-Bordona's opinion concerns the lawsuit that Patrick Breyer, a privacy activist and German pirate party politician, filed against the German government for logging visits to government websites. "Banning governments and Internet giants from identifiably recording our browsing habits is the only way to effectively shield our private life and interests," Breyer has said.

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