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Google Privacy Director Alma Whitten Leaving
Gunkerty Jeb writes "Alma Whitten, the director of privacy at Google, is stepping down from that role and leaves behind her a complicated legacy in regards to user privacy. ... Whitten has been at Google for about 10 years, and while she has been the main public face of the company's product privacy efforts in the last couple of years, she has been involved in engineering privacy initiatives for even longer. Before becoming the privacy lead for products and engineering in 2010 in the aftermath of the Google Street View WiFi controversy, Whitten had been in charge of privacy for the company's engineering teams. During that time, she was involved in the company's public effort to fight the idea that IP addresses can be considered personally identifiable information."
Don't be ridiculous, a street address and an IP-address are nothing alike. You can easily go and use someone else's IP-address, hiding your person behind that of an other, but just try and go live at someone else's home and see how well it goes. You know, the obvious difference comes from the fact that one is a virtual construct that can be utilized from anywhere in the world and the other one is a physical construct that can only be used on that one, specific spot.