The “Yahoo! Case” led to considerable debate about whether or not an IP address is personal data as defined by the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Chapter 486) of the Laws of Hong Kong. This paper discusses the digital evidence presented in the Yahoo! Case and evaluates the impact of the IP address on the verdict in the case. A Bayesian network is used to quantify the evidentiary strengths of hypotheses in the case and to reason about the evidence. The results demonstrate that the evidence about the IP address was significant to obtaining a conviction in the case.
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Kwan, M., Chow, K. P., Lai, P., Law, F., & Tse, H. (2009). Analysis of the digital evidence presented in the Yahoo! Case. In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (Vol. 306, pp. 241–252). Springer Science and Business Media, LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04155-6_18
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