Avril Haines, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Obama Administration Moderator: Doug Kramer, General Counsel, Cloudflare Avril began her career on the National Security Council, and went on to become the first female deputy at the CIA. DK: How will cyber will play a role in military operations? AH: We look
Advancing Privacy Protection with the GDPR
A game-changer 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. This game-changing piece of EU legislation will require companies to
Net Neutrality Day: Cloudflare + Fight for the Future
For Net Neutrality Day on July 12, Fight for the Future (FFTF) launched a Cloudflare App installable for websites all over the world. Sites with it installed saw as many as 178 million page views prompting the users to write to their local congressional representative on the importance of Net
Ninth Circuit Rules on National Security Letter Gag Orders
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. On Monday morning, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals released
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 and then obtain a legal determination