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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....
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. ...
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. ...
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....
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....
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. ...
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....
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...
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. ...
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....
December 04, 2015 9:52 PM
What is Internet Governance and Why Does it Matter?
In November, CloudFlare participated in the tenth annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in João Pessoa, Brazil. ...
August 17, 2015 3:15 PM
Ensuring the web is for everyone
This is the text of an internal email I sent at CloudFlare that we thought worth sharing more widely. I annotated it a bit with links that weren't in the original....