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Re:The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR by hotwire on Saturday March 17, 2018 @07:09PM (#16609537)
- You can identify trends and patterns in your traffic

- You can figure out where in the world your traffic is coming from

- It can be helpful in responding to security incidents

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Re:The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR by jimktrains2 on Saturday March 17, 2018 @07:21PM (#16609599)
- arbitrary user, session and request IDs

- this can be done and then discard the address

- how so? What does knowing the address months later help? Something like fail2ban and other automated systems, sure, but long term logging?

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