The View from Washington: The State of Cybersecurity
September 14, 2017 5:08 PM
Avril Haines, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Obama Administration...
Advancing Privacy Protection with the GDPR
August 21, 2017 11:42 PM
The road towards implementation of the new European GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation) has been a long one, even though public awareness of its impact, especially outside of Europe, is only now really starting to take hold. ...
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
August 16, 2017 10:29 PM
Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer. We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering DNS requests for their sites. We've taken measures to ensure that they cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again....
Net Neutrality Day: Cloudflare + Fight for the Future
July 25, 2017 6:31 PM
For Net Neutrality Day on July 12, Fight for the Future launched a Cloudflare App installable for websites all over the world. Sites with it installed saw as many as 178M page views prompting the users to write to their local congressional representative on the importance of Net Neutrality....
Ninth Circuit Rules on National Security Letter Gag Orders
July 18, 2017 6:39 PM
As we’ve previously discussed on this blog, Cloudflare has been challenging for years the constitutionality of the FBI’s use of national security letters (NSLs) to demand user data on a confidential basis....
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June 23, 2017 1:00 PM
Project Jengo: Explaining Challenges to Patent Validity (and a looming threat)
We’ve written a couple times about the problem of patent trolls, and what we are doing in response to the first case a troll filed against Cloudflare. We set a goal to find prior art on all 38 Blackbird Tech patents and applications. ...
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June 21, 2017 1:00 PM
When the Internet (Officially) Became the Public Square
Sometimes, well-intended efforts to prevent unacceptable behavior run into the reality of what it means to have an open and free society....
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May 25, 2017 4:00 PM
Patent Troll Battle Update: Doubling Down on Project Jengo
We knew the case against patent trolls was the right one, but we have been overwhelmed by the response to our blog posts on patent trolls and our program for finding prior art on the patents held by Blackbird Tech, which we’ve dubbed Project Jengo....
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May 11, 2017 3:00 PM
Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll
On March 20th, Cloudflare received our first patent infringement claim: Blackbird Tech LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc. Today we’re filing our Answer to that claim in a federal court in Delaware. ...
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May 11, 2017 3:00 PM
Project Jengo: Cloudflare's Prior Art Search Bounty
As readers of this blog likely know, especially if you read this post, Cloudflare has been sued by a dangerous new breed of patent troll, Blackbird Technologies, asserting a very old and very vague patent. ...
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April 13, 2017 1:06 PM
Data Transfers Post-Brexit: Smoothing the Transition
The average internet user consumes vast amounts of data on a daily basis but rarely – unless an avid follower of Max Schrems - thinks about how the data flows or the mechanisms and legal arrangements in place to make it all happen....
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March 24, 2017 12:16 AM
Our Response to the Senate Vote on FCC Privacy Rules
Today, the U.S. Senate voted narrowly to undo certain regulations governing broadband providers, put in place during the Obama administration, that would have required Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to obtain approval from their customers before sharing information....
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January 10, 2017 11:20 PM
Cloudflare’s Transparency Report for Second Half 2016 and an Additional Disclosure for 2013
Cloudflare is publishing today its seventh transparency report, covering the second half of 2016. For the first time, we are able to present information on a previously undisclosed National Security Letter (NSL) Cloudflare received in the 2013 reporting period. ...
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December 02, 2016 11:26 PM
Will autocrats ever learn? - The Internet Blackout in Gambia
On Wednesday afternoon, Cloudflare and other Internet companies noticed that the West African country of The Gambia had dropped off the Internet - the day before the presidential election that was planned to be held there on Thursday, December 1st. ...
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October 01, 2016 1:44 AM
Cloudflare Certifies Under the New EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
Cloudflare has certified with the U.S. Department of Commerce for the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework. ...
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September 05, 2016 9:14 AM
After 4 days, Gabon is getting back on the Internet (updated)
On September 1, we reported that we had seen a complete shutdown of Internet access to CloudFlare sites from Gabon....
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September 01, 2016 5:59 PM
Unrest in Gabon leads to Internet shutdown (updated)
A second day of rioting in Gabon after the recent election is accompanied by an Internet blackout. Residents of the capital, Libreville, reported that Internet access had been cut and we can confirm that we saw a sudden shutdown of Internet access from Gabon to sites that use Clo...
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August 25, 2016 2:18 PM
How the Consumer Product Safety Commission is (Inadvertently) Behind the Internet’s Largest DDoS Attacks
The mission of the United State's Government's Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is to protect consumers from injury by products. ...
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August 18, 2016 1:01 PM
The Cuban CDN
On a recent trip to Cuba I brought with me a smartphone and hoped to get Internet access either via WiFi or 3G. I managed that (at a price) but also saw for myself how Cubans get access to an alternate Internet delivered by sneakernet....
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