Anon asks: "Is an email address under US law a personal secret?", and
I really don't know the answer. My non-lawyerly reading of the UK Data
Protection Act 19981 would indicate that it definitely is NOT,
in our jurisdiction. The Act defines (Part 1, Section 1, para 1) 'personal
data' as data which relate to a living individual who can be
identified—
(a)from those data, or
(b)from those data and other
information which is in the possession of, or is likely to come into the
possession of, the data controller
An email address does not
identify a living individual, even if, as in this case, it is joined with a
number identifying a specific device, the ICCID of the iPad. Ergo, for my
money, there's another grounds for appeal: no identities were compromised, so
identity theft cannot have occurred.
1 See http://www.legislation.gov.uk
/ukpga/1998/29 --- (c) assigned to PJ
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