Privacy Laws only protect the guilty in this country, you have buckley's of getting any action.
If somebody gets your prime IP address, and they are computer savvy, they can use that number to make it appear you are sending emails or spamming, or any other corrupt dealings on the internet.
IP tracking is also not all that useful, as it can be so easily manipulated.
Most trolls have cheap dial up accounts, and dial interstate log on numbers and their IP appears to come from that state.
Because all the major Telco's re route to cope with traffic loads, the trace can bounce world wide, to servers in the US and back to another state here. Trolls use proxy servers where there are no records kept, such as weather stations, and known IP altering programmes like Hide my IP, are easily bought cheaply.
We had a case of knowing someone was going to try to hack our site, and watched them on the panel. Because the person was a banned member and their IP (fixed) was banned, we learned they were going to use another persons computer, so after to days of recording the IP, exact times and date, we sent all the detail off to the ISP, and got told to basically bu***r off.
It does seem that when it comes to invading our privacy, others have a free reign as those laws work against us to protect them.
If you complain to Twitter, they tell you they only accept complaints from official Law Enforcement or the Legal Fraternity.
If you are being trolled on Ebay, and ask who is watching your auctions in their favourites, they wont tell you, it's against their privacy policy.
While it's a wonderful thing to respect others privacy, it works in favour of the criminals and against honest people.
Good to see the Cops are playing the role of children to catch scum who prey on them.
But did they break any privacy laws....?
Funny thing about Telstra, When my wife was phoned and threatend by trolls, they said they couldn't do anything about finding out who it was, but when I said " Yes you can, because our phone number appears on someones account for the phone calls they made, and it was a simple matter of reverse tracing ", the line went dead.
We are all victims of a system that protects those who push the envelope until they are caught read handed, but even then, privacy laws still protect them.
