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Volunteers and Consent

I’ve read two documents this week – one academic paper and one guide from the Information Commissioner – pointing out that just because someone chooses to participate in an activity doesn’t mean that Consent is the appropriate legal basis for processing their personal data. There might be several reasons for that… First, if the nature […]

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Thinking about automation: DDoS protection

One of the major causes of disruption on the Internet is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Unlike “hacking”, these don’t require there to be any security weakness in the target system: they simply aim to overload it with more traffic than it (or its network connection) can handle. Often such attacks are launched from […]