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February 28, 2019 1:00 PM
Digital Evidence Across Borders and Engagement with Non-U.S. Authorities
Since we first started reporting in 2013, our transparency report has focused on requests from U.S. law enforcement. Previous versions of the report noted that, as a U.S. company, we ask non-U.S. law enforcement agencies to obtain formal U.S. legal process before providing custom...
February 27, 2019 1:00 PM
Out of the Clouds and into the weeds: Cloudflare’s approach to abuse in new products
In a blogpost yesterday, we addressed the principles we rely upon when faced with numerous and various requests to address the content of websites that use our services. ...
February 26, 2019 1:00 PM
Unpacking the Stack and Addressing Complaints about Content
Although we are focused on protecting and optimizing the operation of the Internet, Cloudflare is sometimes the target of complaints or criticism about the content of a very small percentage of the more than thirteen million websites that use our service....
January 23, 2019 9:13 AM
Tracing Soon-to-Expire Federal .gov Certificates with CT Monitors
As of December 22, 2018, parts of the US Government have “shut down” because of a lapse in appropriation. The shutdown has caused the furlough of employees across the government and has affected federal contracts. ...
January 02, 2019 10:11 PM
Sad start to the new year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The calendar has barely flipped to 2019 and already we’re seeing Internet disruptions. Today, Cloudflare can quantitatively confirm that Internet access has been shut down in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, information already reported by many press organisations....
January 22, 2018 11:16 AM
Large drop in traffic from the Democratic Republic of Congo
It is not uncommon for countries around the world to interrupt Internet access for political reasons or because of social unrest. We've seen this many times in the past (e.g. Gabon, Syria, Togo).
Today, it appears that Internet access in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been...
January 05, 2018 8:04 PM
Keeping your GDPR Resolutions
For many of us, a New Year brings a renewed commitment to eat better, exercise regularly, and read more (especially the Cloudflare blog). But as we enter 2018, there is a unique and significant new commitment approaching....
December 12, 2017 3:00 AM
The FCC Wants to Terminate Net Neutrality - Use Battle for the Net on Cloudflare Apps to Fight Back
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has scheduled a vote to kill its net neutrality rules this Thursday, December 14th. ...
September 14, 2017 5:08 PM
The View from Washington: The State of Cybersecurity
Avril Haines, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Obama Administration...
August 16, 2017 10:29 PM
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
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....
July 25, 2017 6:31 PM
Net Neutrality Day: Cloudflare + Fight for the Future
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 ...
July 09, 2017 4:29 PM
Participate in the Net Neutrality Day of Action
We at Cloudflare strongly believe in network neutrality, the principle that networks should not discriminate against content that passes through them. ...
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....
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....
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. ...