DATE October 2, 2017 3:18 pm
POSTED BY Andrew Mason
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The Closed Club Since starting my career in Data Protection I have always noted that it is relatively lacking in youth and a bit of closed club. I once put the question to a relatively senior member of the ICO at a conference, asking if there were any initiatives to...
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DATE December 20, 2016 3:02 pm
POSTED BY Andrew Mason
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Background When we first looked at the GDPR we were asked by our clients if we thought they would be caught by Article 37 of the regulation – the mandatory requirement to nominate a DPO. While it seemed to us that many might well fall under the scope of the...
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DATE December 12, 2016 2:25 pm
POSTED BY Andrew Mason
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Last month the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in current history crippled much of the Internet in the United States[1]. As a result a variety of large websites, such as Netflix, Reddit and Twitter, were all brought down. What made the attack so different was that instead of...
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