The beginning of this thread, the first comment you replied to, was me talking about the IP information in particular.
>However, this is an entirely different situation! Omegle is not an ISP.
Omegle's reports would be much less useful to law enforcement if they couldn't subpoena ISPs to track people down from their IP addresses.
>it also turns out that you can't tell from "logging IP addresses only" whether someone is a child rapist or not.
That's also why logging IPs only is less of a privacy issue: the data is pretty much only useful when you're investigating a specific crime.
The beginning of this thread, the first comment you replied to, was me talking about the IP information in particular.
>However, this is an entirely different situation! Omegle is not an ISP.
Omegle's reports would be much less useful to law enforcement if they couldn't subpoena ISPs to track people down from their IP addresses.
>it also turns out that you can't tell from "logging IP addresses only" whether someone is a child rapist or not.
That's also why logging IPs only is less of a privacy issue: the data is pretty much only useful when you're investigating a specific crime.