German police ask router owners for help in identifying a bomber's MAC address
Found on ZD Net on Sunday, 13 January 2019
In a press release published yesterday, police from the German state of Brandenburg, where the city of Berlin is located, is now asking router owners to comb through their logs for a specific MAC address.
The suspect demanded large sums of money from DHL and threatened to detonate bombs across Germany, at DHL courier stations, private companies, and in public spaces.
Unfortunately, the MAC address is considered as personally identifiable information so it would be covered by the DSGVO/GDPR. So router owners are legally not allowed to store this information, especially not for more than a year.